Carl Julius Bernhard Börner

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Carl Julius Bernhard Börner (born May 28, 1880 in Bremen , † June 14, 1953 in Naumburg (Saale) ) was a German entomologist , botanist and oenologist . Its botanical author's abbreviation is " Börner ".

Life

Carl Börner studied biology in Marburg . From 1903 he was an assistant at the Imperial Biological Institute (later the Reich Biological Institute ) in Berlin-Dahlem . As head of the Ulmenweiler vine station (Villers-l'Orme), today part of Vany , near Metz in Lorraine from 1907, he devoted himself to research into the biology and control of phylloxera . In 1910 he discovered the different phylloxera races. After relocating the vine station to Naumburg (Saale), he grew phylloxera-resistant documents there. He showed that American vines have phylloxera resistance and promoted rootstock breeding . From 1923 the cultivation of grafted vines was approved in Germany and the fight against phylloxera was won.

Carl Börner also worked on the phylloxera laws (phylloxera regulation) and the control of the German wine-growing areas contaminated by the pest. In 1935 he discovered the first phylloxera-resistant American wild grape, Vitis cinerea Arnold, which, after further selection work by Helmut Becker in Geisenheim, was included in the variety register under the name Börner in 1989 and classified for the Federal Republic of Germany in 1991.

For his fundamental research in the areas of comparative morphology and the taxonomy of arthropods as well as in recognition of his decisive contribution to the extraction of phylloid-resistant vines and aphid-resistant apple trees, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in natural sciences from the TU Dresden on June 3, 1953 .

His springtails collection is in the Natural History Museum in London and the German Entomological Institute in Müncheberg .

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SURNAME Borner, Carl Julius Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist, entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1953
Place of death Naumburg (Saale)