Edmund Spohr (botanist)

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Edmund Charles Spohr (born October 23, jul. / 4. November  1887 greg. In Parnu , † 21st April 1964 in Goettingen ) was a Baltic German botanist and professor.

Life

After attending grammar school in Pernau, Edmund Spohr studied botany and anthropology at Moscow University and Dorpat University . After botanical expeditions to Siberia and the Caucasus , he completed his studies with a doctorate as Dr. phil. nat. from. He returned to Pernau in 1917 and was a senior teacher at the German School from 1918 to 1919. In 1920 he went to Dorpat as a private lecturer . From 1923 to 1929 he was a lecturer in the systematics and geography of plants and director of the Tartu Botanical Garden . From 1928 to 1939 he was head of the Dorpater Deutsche Hochschulhilfe, which he co-founded in 1828. From 1929 to 1939 he headed the Institute for Scientific Local Research, which he founded in 1929, at the Livonian Charitable and Economic Society. He was also a full professor at the Herder Institute in Riga from 1930 to 1939 . Spohr was a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Estonian German Cultural Self-Government, since 1933 a corresponding member of the Natural Scientists' Association, since 1934 a corresponding member of the Estonian Literary Society and a liaison professor of the German National Academic Foundation . For many years he was first secretary and in 1938/39 head of the Dorpater lecturers' evening. He also represented Estonia in the North-East German Research Association (NOFG). From 1941 to 1945 Spohr was Professor of Plant Geography at the University of Posen and Director of the Botanical Garden. He was dean and a member of the Senate. He lived in Göttingen from 1945 until his death. From 1949 to 1951 he was a research officer at the Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture. From 1959 he was emeritus. In the same year he became a member of the Curonia Goettingensis , founded on August 1, 1959 as the traditional bearer of the Baltic Corps .

Honors

Fonts

  • Geobotaanikast, eriti taimesotsioloogiast ja Eesti geobotaanilisest uurimisest - Some things about geobotany with special consideration of plant sociology and geobotanical research in Estonia , Tartu 1923
  • Eesti taimkatte lühike ülevaade , Tartu 1925
  • Vōrumaa taimkattest ja tema uurimistest - About the plant cover of the Werroschen district in Estonia and their exploration , 1926
  • About the occurrence of Sium erectum Huds. and Lemna Gibba L. in Estonia and beyond its north-eastern distribution borders in Europe , Tartu 1926
  • About brown-producing substances in the plant kingdom , Tartu 1927
  • Setumaa taimkatte iseloomust Aratrükk "Setumaast" - About the peculiarity of the Setukesian vegetation in Estonia , Tartu 1927
  • About the distribution of some remarkable plants in need of protection in the Old Baltic region , Dorpat 1928
  • On the distribution and immigration of Helodea canadensis in Estonia , Reval 1930
  • About the Plant Geography Working Group in the Fennobalt Region and this year's meeting in Finland , Dorpat 1930
  • On some guidelines in German-Baltic academic life in Estonia , Dorpat 1933
  • Current German Academic and Scientific Life in Estonia , Dorpat 1933

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Kaegbein, Wilhelm Lenz: Four decades of Baltic historical research. The Baltic Historians' Meeting in Göttingen 1947–1986 and the Baltic Historical Commission . Baltic Historical Commission , Göttingen 1987. Therein: List of members of the Baltic Historical Commission: I. Honorary members and full members , pp. 79–149; there Art. Spohr, Edmund .
  2. ^ Ingo Haar : Historians in National Socialism. German history and the “national struggle” in the east. , Göttingen 2000, p. 302.
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 29/5
personal data
SURNAME Spohr, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spohr, Edmund Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic botanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Pernau
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1964
Place of death Goettingen