Edmund Russow

Edmund Russow, portrait photography by Theodor John (around 1890)

Edmund Friedrich August Russow ( Russian Эдмунд Фридрихович Руссов ; born February 12 ^{. Jul} / 24. February  1841 ^greg. In Tallinn , † March 30 ^jul. / 11. April  1897 ^greg. In Tartu ) was a Russian , Baltic German botanist .

Life

family

Edmund was a member of the Baltic Russow family. His parents were the engineer - lieutenant colonel and head of the Estonian building commission Friedrich Russow (born 1795) and Wera Dorothea, née Hertwig (1818-1887).

He married Emma Winkler (1842–1903) in 1866. The marriage had five children:

• Wolfgang (1862–1938), head of the Tallinn Naval School
• Karl Ernst (1869–1932), physician
• Karl Johann Walter (1872-1894)
• Erna (* 1874) ⚭ 1894 Constantin Winkler (1848–1900), botanist
• Frieda Wera Walli (1878–1958)

Career

Russow attended the government high school in Reval from 1851 to 1860 and studied botany in Dorpat from 1860 to 1864. He continued his studies in 1865 with Alexander Braun in Berlin . Back in Dorpat he did his master's degree in 1865 and became assistant to the director of the botanical garden. He then became a private lecturer in 1866 and from 1867 to 1874 lecturer in botany, especially the anatomy and physiology of plants. In 1871 he worked in Berlin, Rostock and again Dorpat, where he became a Dr. bot. received his doctorate . In 1872 he was awarded the Baer Prize, named after Karl Ernst von Baer , of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg . From 1874 to 1895 he was a full professor of botany and director of the botanical garden. He was a real Councilor of State , which according to the rankings was associated with the hereditary nobility and the title Exalted Excellency , and President of the Dorpater Society of Natural Scientists. In 1887 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Russow was a versatile researcher with excellent microscope skills . He was particularly concerned with mosses and ferns , and took an active part in the specialist discourses of his time. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Russow ".

Works

• Contributions to the knowledge of the peat moss , Dorpat 1865 ( digitized version )
• Histology and history of development of the Marsilia spore fruit, Dorpat 1871 (dissertation) ( digitized version )
• Comparative studies on the histiology ... of the vascular bundles of cryptogams St. Petersburg 1872 ( digitized version )
• Development history of the spore fruit from Marsilia , St. Petersburg 1873 ( digitized version )
• Considerations about the vascular bundle and basic tissue from a comparative morphological and phylogenetic point of view , 1875
• About the lining of the intercellular , Dorpat 1884

Plants first described by Russow

Russow described a total of 196 plant species, subspecies and varieties as well as sections , including the species:

• Sphagnum warnstorfii , 1888

Plants named after Russov

• Dactylorhiza russowii blade
• Saussurea russowii C. Winkl.
• Sphagnum russowii Warnst.

literature

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Edmund Russow. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
• Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона , Volume 27, 1899, p. 364 (Russian)
• Arnold Hasselblatt and Gustav Otto : Album academicum of the Imperial University of Dorpat. C. Mattiesen, Dorpat 1889, p. 530
• Jan-Peter Frahm , Jens Eggers: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists , Volume 1, 2nd edition, revision. Self-published by the authors, Bonn 2001, pp. 425–426
• Constantin Winkler: Edmund Russow. In: Reports of the German Botanical Society, Volume 15, 1897, pp. 46–55 ( Wiley Online Library )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Hermann Rump: Trees and Times - A History of Tree Ring Research , 2018, p. 84.
2. ↑ Alexander Keyserling: Count Alexander Keyserling . A picture of life from his letters and diaries. Volume 1, 2018, p. 103.
3. ^ Russow, Edmund August Friedrich. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden (with list of described plant taxa). Retrieved December 6, 2018
4. ^ Report of the meeting of the Dorpater Naturforscher-Gesellschaft, Volume 8, p. 315.
5. ↑ Sphagnum warnstorfii ( Memento of the original from May 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Website of the project Die Moose Deutschlands . (Accessed December 6, 2018).