Carl August Bolle

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Carl Bolle (1902)

Carl August Bolle , also Karl , (born November 21, 1821 in Schöneberg , † February 17, 1909 in Berlin ) was a German naturalist and collector . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Bolle ".

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Carl Bolle was a son of the wealthy Berlin brewery owner David Bolle and his wife Henriette Bolle nee. Marggraf. He attended the French grammar school and from 1841 studied medicine and natural history at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1842 he became a member of the Fridericia Bonn fraternity .

In 1846 he was in Berlin with a thesis De vegetatione alpina in Germania extra-Alpes obvia (On the alpine vegetation in Germany outside the Alps) to Dr. med. PhD . However, he never practiced the profession of a medical doctor, but devoted himself entirely to his natural history interests. He visited the Cape Verde and Canary Islands in 1852 and 1856 and wrote My Second Contribution to Ornithology in the Canary Islands in 1857 .

In 1855 Bolle was elected a member of the Leopoldina Academic Academy . In 1867 he was a founding member of the German Ornithological Society (D-OG) and succeeded Alfred Brehm as chairman in 1884 . He also worked in the German Dendrological Society and in the " Brandenburgia ".

In 1867 he bought the v. Humboldt the island of Scharfenberg near Tegel, north of Berlin. Here he built a villa in 1883 and laid out a dendrological garden ( arboretum ). The villa was demolished in 1951, but some of the trees he planted have been preserved. His grave was in the old St. Matthew Cemetery in Schöneberg . The tomb stands today on the island of Scharfenberg.

Honors

Bolles laurel dove ( Columba bollii ) was named after him by Frederick DuCane Godman , and the columnar white poplar Populus alba var. Bolleana , today Populus alba 'Pyramidalis', also bore his name. The genera Bollea Rchb.f. from the orchid family (Orchidaceae) and Bollaea Parl. from the Amaryllis family (Amaryllidaceae) named after him.

literature

  • Ernst Friedel : Obituary in: "Brandenburgia", monthly newspaper of the Society for Local Studies of the Province of Brandenburg in Berlin , 18th year 1909/1910, pp. 157–161.
  • Klaus Arlt: Bolle, Carl. In: Friedrich Beck , Eckart Henning (Ed.): Brandenburgisches Biographisches Lexikon. (= Individual publications of the Brandenburg Historical Commission e.V. , Volume 5.) Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2002, ISBN 3-935035-39-X , p. 58. (with portrait)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Richarz: List of members of the Fridericia fraternity in Bonn (February 18, 1843 to autumn 1847) as well as the Arminia fraternity in Bonn (1847 to 1849) and the fraternity association Germania in Bonn (1843 to 1849). Bonn 1894, p. 9.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 299.
  3. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

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SURNAME Bolle, Carl August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bolle, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naturalist and collector
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Schöneberg
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1909
Place of death Berlin