Oscar Drude
Carl Georg Oscar Drude (born June 5, 1852 in Braunschweig , † February 1, 1933 in Dresden ) was a German botanist , university professor and co-founder of plant ecology as a scientific discipline. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Drude ".
Life
The doctor's son, who came from an old Braunschweig family, studied natural sciences and chemistry at the Collegium Carolinum in his hometown from 1870 and moved to the University of Göttingen in 1871 . There Drude became an assistant to August Grisebach . He held this office until 1879.
In 1874, Drude finished his studies with a doctorate as “Dr. phil. ". Then he got a job as a herbarium assistant to Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling . There in Göttingen he also worked as a private lecturer in botany. In 1876 Drude completed his habilitation in botany. In 1879 he accepted a position at the Polytechnic in Dresden , where he held a chair for botany. On December 19, 1879 ( registration number 2234 ) he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . When the Polytechnic received the status of a technical university in 1890, Drude had great influence in the redesign of the natural science, especially the botanical, chairs. In the same year the Botanical Garden in Dresden got Drude, a competent and committed director. Together with Bruno Steglich, Drude added an agricultural experimental station for plant culture to the garden. In 1895 he was accepted as an extraordinary member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . Since 1907 he was a full member of this academy.
With his work The Ecology of Plants , he became one of the co-founders of this department.
Oscar Drude died in Dresden in 1933. His grave is in the local Johannisfriedhof .
Honors
The genus Drudeophytum Coult was named in his honor . & Rose of the umbelliferous plant family (Apiaceae). The magazine Drudea , which appeared from 1961 to 1964, is also named after him.
In 1899 he was appointed Privy Councilor .
In 1953, the TU Dresden named the building of the Botanical Institute " Drude-Bau ".
Fonts
- The biology of Monotropa Hypopitys L. and Neottia Nidus avis L. with reference to other orchids . Dieterich (W. Fr. Kaestner) , Göttingen 1873 ( archive )
- Atlas of Plant Distribution . Justus Perthes , Gotha 1887 ( archive )
- Handbook of Plant Geography , J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1890 ( digitized version and full text in the German text archive )
- Germany's plant geography. A geographical character picture of the flora of Germany and the neighboring Alpine and Carpathian countries . J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1896 ( TU Braunschweig )
- The Hercynian flora district. Basic features of the plant distribution in the central German mountain and hill country from the Harz to the Rhön, to the Lausitz and the Bohemian Forest . Wilhelm Engelmann , Leipzig 1902 ( archive )
- The ecology of plants . Friedrich Vieweg and son , Braunschweig 1913 ( TU Braunschweig )
Quotes from Drude's work
- " Every closed plant stand has as its character types those which act on the carpet of the plant cover in their sociability in the first place and in which the others are interspersed as admixed minor species" (Die Ökologie der Pflanzen, 1913, p. 215).
- " The physiographic ecology has the task of establishing the associations, to delimit them from one another, and to bring the particular conditions of climate and soil, which ban each one in their place or dynamically (progressive or regressive), to the knowledge " (Die Ökologie der Pflanzen, 1913, p. 218).
literature
- Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries , Hannover 1996, p. 147.
- Rudolph Zaunick: Drude, Carl Georg Oscar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 138 ( digitized version ).
- Festschrift for Oscar Drude's 80th birthday . Heinrich, Dresden 1932.
Web links
- Literature by and about Oscar Drude in the catalog of the German National Library
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Oscar Drude at the IPNI
- http://publicus.culture.hu-berlin.de/sammlungen/person/327
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry of Oscar Drude at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on August 14, 2017.
- ^ Members of the SAW: Oskar Drude. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed on October 15, 2016 .
- ^ TU Dresden. ( Memento of April 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved October 13, 2015.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Drude, Oscar |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Drude, Carl Georg Oscar |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German botanist |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1852 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
DATE OF DEATH | February 1, 1933 |
Place of death | Dresden |