Alfred Bornmüller
Alfred Julius Bornmüller (born December 2, 1868 in Hildburghausen ; † July 13, 1947 in Weimar ) was a German naval officer , botanist , mountaineer , explorer and board member of the Bibliographical Institute .
Life
The son of Franz Bornmüller, the editor at the Bibliographisches Institut s in Hildburghausen, and his wife Meta Meyer (1833–1875), sister of the publisher Herrmann Julius Meyer , attended the König-Albert-Gymnasium in Leipzig from 1880 to 1887 like his brother Joseph . He then embarked on the career of a naval officer. As a first lieutenant at sea, he took his leave.
In 1897 he went on a one-year research trip through Cameroon , where he especially collected mosses and lichens . In 1902 he traveled to Persia with his brother , where he was the first to climb Alam-Kuh, the second highest mountain in the Elburs Mountains, at 4,848 meters .
From 1903 to 1907 he lived as head of the German colony of Neu-Württemberg in Rio Grande do Sul , which his cousin Hermann Meyer had founded. When his grandfather's publishing house, Joseph Meyer , was converted into a stock corporation in 1915, Bornmüller became a member of the board of directors of the Bibliographical Institute.
According to him Plagiochasma bornmuelleri (= P. rupestre ) named that he and several other mosses during his stay in South Brazil had collected.
literature
- Jan-Peter Frahm, Jens Eggers: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists. Journal of moss research in Germany . Supplementary volume. Bonn J.-P. Frahm, c / o Botanical Inst. Of the Univ. Bonn 2005, ISBN 9783831109869
Individual evidence
- ↑ König Albert-Gymnasium (Royal High School until 1900) in Leipzig: Student album 1880-1904 / 05 , Friedrich Gröber, Leipzig 1905
- ^ Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists, p. 47
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bornmüller, Alfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bornmüller, Alfred Julius (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hildburghausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 13, 1947 |
| Place of death | Weimar |