August Seybold

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August Seybold (born December 7, 1901 in Heidenheim an der Brenz , † December 11, 1965 in Heidelberg ) was a German botanist and university professor .

August Seybold 1963

Live and act

Seybold, who received his doctorate in Munich in 1925, was professor in Heidelberg from 1934. He was appointed against the will of the faculty by the rector of the university, Wilhelm Groh , whereby , according to Ute Deichmann , his political attitude was the decisive reason. He called for a ban on reading the journal Nature , sympathized with so-called German Physics and had an openly pro-National Socialist stance; possibly he was a "supporting member of the SS ". He also did not shy away from politically denouncing his predecessor Ludwig Jost . After the end of the Nazi era, he did not support Gerta von Ubisch, who was dismissed in 1933, in asserting her claims for reparation. In 1937 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In the same year he became a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Seybold first (and again after 1945) researched the transpiration of plants, then with his assistants also researched chlorophylls and other plant pigments , as well as the distribution of vitamin C in plants. From 1940 - from the 50th edition on - he worked on Otto Schmeil's textbook on botany .

Works

  • Vinum - The wine of the old and the new. A wine reading book , Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg 1962
  • On the physiology of chlorophyll. Weiß, Heidelberg 1940 (meeting reports of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Mathematical and Natural Science Class, born 1940, Abh. 8)
  • with Karl Egle : Investigations on chlorophylls. Weiß, Heidelberg 1939 (Meeting reports of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Mathematical and Natural Science Class, born 1939, Abh. 1)
  • The physical component of plant perspiration. Julius Springer, Berlin 1929
  • To clarify the xerophyte problem. Amsterdam 1928
  • Investigations into the shape of the leaves of angiosperms. Gebr. Bornträger, Leipzig 1927
  • About the rotation during the unfolding movement of the leaves. Fischer, Jena 1925 (Botanical Treatises, Book 6; also: Munich, Phil. Diss., 1924)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Seybold, August. In: Personenlexikon.net
  2. ^ Ute Deichmann botany and zoology , in: Wolfgang U. Eckart, Volker Sellin, Eike Wolgast (eds.) The University of Heidelberg under National Socialism . Heidelberg, Springer 2006, pp. 1193-1211, here p. 1209
  3. ↑ Stephen P. Remy The Heidelberg Myth: The Nazification and Denazification of a German University. Cambridge (Ma.), London 2002, pp. 55f.
  4. ^ A. Seybold The joint work of physical and biological research - a task of German science. In: August Becker (Hrsg.): Naturforschung im Aufbruch: Speeches and lectures for the inauguration of the Philip Lenard Institute at Heidelberg University . Munich 1936, pp. 55-60. See also Stephen P. Remy The Heidelberg Myth: The Nazification and Denazification of a German University. Cambridge (Ma.), London 2002, pp. 205f.
  5. ↑ a b Ute Deichmann botany and zoology , in: Wolfgang U. Eckart, Volker Sellin, Eike Wolgast (eds.) Heidelberg University under National Socialism . Heidelberg, Springer 2006, pp. 1193–1211, here p. 1208
  6. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. August Seybold. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed June 12, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Seybold, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidenheim an der Brenz
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1965
Place of death Heidelberg