Carl Warnstorf

Carl Friedrich Warnstorf (born December 2, 1837 in Sommerfeld , Lausitz, † February 28, 1921 in Berlin-Friedenau ) was a Brandenburg- Prussian, German pedagogue, florist and bryologist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Warnst. ".

Life

Gravestone on the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf

Carl Warnstorf was born the son of a shoemaker. After attending secondary school and the preparatory facility in Sommerfeld, he completed the teachers' seminar in Neuzelle from 1855 to 1858 . In 1861 he became a teacher in Arnswalde , where he married Emilie Hübler (d. 1917), and in 1867 in Neuruppin , where he worked in education for 32 years. He continued his botanical research in addition to his professional work and after his retirement in 1899 and a move to Berlin by working on his Sphagnologia universalis even more intensively until his death.

He was mainly concerned with peat moss , on which he also wrote numerous publications as a recognized specialist author. He increased the number of known sphagnum species considerably, while also opening up new complexes of features, such as the pore distribution in the leaflets or the formation of bulbils and rhizoid nodules. Its extensive moss herbarium was largely destroyed by the effects of the war, only a residual herbarium remained. In 1917 he was awarded the title of honorary professor for his services. In addition, a genus of the moss ( Drepanocladus = Warnstorfia) and 18 species were named after him. He died at the age of 83.

His final resting place is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf , Schöneberg block, field 4a.

Fonts

• The European peat bogs. A criticism and description of the same , Berlin 1881; Les sphaignes d'Europe, also 1888; The European Sphagneaceae, London 1901.
• The peat moss in the Kgl. Botanical Museum in Berlin . A bryological study , Cassel 1882.
• Sphagnological reviews , Regensburg 1884.
• Moss flora of the province of Brandenburg. A systematic compilation of the liver, peat and leaf mosses observed in this area so far , Berlin 1885.
• Liverwort and peat moss , Leipzig 1903; Moss , Leipzig 1906. (= cryptogam flora of the Mark Brandenburg and adjacent areas, vol. 1 and 2).
• Sphagnales-Sphagnaceae (Sphagnales universalis), Leipzig 1911. (= Adolf Engler's Plant Kingdom, vol. 51); ND Weinheim 1958; Leipzig 1965; Vaduz 1976.
• On the Bryo Geography of the Russian Empire: A Memory of Dr. E. Zickendraht , Dresden 1913.
• Bryophyta (Sphagnales, Bryales, Hepaticae). (= The freshwater flora of Germany, Austria and Switzerland , H. 14), Jena 1914. (with W. Mönkemeyer and V. Schiffner).
• Pottia studies as preliminary work for a monograph of the genus "Pottia Ehrh" sensstr. , Dresden 1917.

literature

• Wolfram Schultze Motel: Carl Warnstorf's Moosherbar . In: Willdenowia, Vol. 3, H. 2 (Dec. 31, 1962), pp. 289-313.
• Jens Eggers: life data of German bryologists . In: Bryologische Rundbriefe No. 26 (1999), pp. 1-17.
• S. Rätzel / V. Otte / A. Schaepe: Report from the 1st Brandenburg moss mapping meeting in Klosterheide near Rheinsberg - on the trail of Carl Warnstorf . In: Negotiations of the Botanical Association of Berlin and Brandenburg 113 (2000), pp. 527-537.
• Jan-Peter Frahm / Jens Eggert: Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen , Vol. 2, Norderstedt 2001, pp. 544-549. (with bibliography)

Web links

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