Anton Rehmann

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Anton Rehmann ( Polish Antoni Rehman ) (born May 13, 1840 in Krakow , † January 13, 1917 in Lemberg ) was a Polish- Galician , k. k. and k. u. k. Austrian geographer , geomorphologist, botanist and explorer. He published mostly in German in Austrian magazines and is considered an Austrian botanist, since Galicia was part of Austria-Hungary at the time. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Rehm. "

Life

Anton was the son of master chimney sweep Józef Rehman (1812–1882) and Anna Piotrowski. From 1860 to 1863 he studied natural sciences and geography at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow , where he received his doctorate in philosophy in botany in 1864 . In 1865 he explored the steppes of Podolia , the banks of the Dniester and the Chornohora . In the years 1866–1867 he specialized in plant anatomy in Munich with Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli . In 1868 he traveled through southern Russia and in 1869 he completed his habilitation at the University of Cracow in the field of plant anatomy.

In 1873 and 1874 he toured the Caucasus and the Crimea , from 1875 to 1877 and from 1879 to 1880 he traveled through South Africa , where he visited the areas of the San , Khoikhoi , Zulu and Bantu peoples , among others .

In 1882 he became a professor at the University of Lviv . From 1884 to 1897 the botanist was also a lecturer at the Veterinary Academy.

From 1887 full professor at Lviv University he held the position of dean of the Philosophical Faculty in the academic year 1887/1888 and that of the rector of the university in 1888/1889 . He was a member of the Scientific Society Cracow, the Physiographical Commission of the Academy of Scholarship Cracow and the Natural Scientific Nicolaus Copernicus Society, of which he was President in 1888/89. In 1910 he retired.

During his work and his travels, he collected enormous amounts of herbaric material. To this day, his collection is in herbaria around the world, including the most important ones in Krakow and Lviv.

He described several new plant taxa , u. a. a variation of wormwood ( Artemisia absinthium L. var. calcigena Rehm. ), which is now recognized as endemic to the Pieniny Mountains and is therefore on the red list of threatened plants in Poland. Rehmann is also assigned the simple hedgehog's cob ( Sparganium emersum ).

Honors

According to Rehmann, the moss genus Rehmanniella is Müll.Hal. named.

Fonts

  • Travel Sketches from Southern Africa (1881)
  • Echoes from Southern Africa (1884)
  • The Tatras from a physical-geographical point of view (1895)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

literature

personal data
SURNAME Rehmann, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-Austrian geographer, geomorphologist, botanist and explorer
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1917
Place of death Lviv