Ernst Pringsheim junior

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Ernst Georg Pringsheim (born October 26, 1881 in Breslau ; † December 26, 1970 in Hanover ) was a Silesian , German natural scientist and plant physiologist and professor of biochemistry and botany in Berlin , Prague and Cambridge and Göttingen . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " EGPringsh. ".

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Ernst Pringsheim came from the German-Jewish Pringsheim merchant family from Silesia . He was the son of Hugo Pringsheim (1845-1915) and Hedwig Johanna Heymann (1856-1938). His brothers were Hans and Fritz Pringsheim . He married Lily Chun (1887–1954), the daughter of Professor Carl Chun , in Königsberg on March 18, 1907 . The marriage, which had five children, ended in divorce in 1921. In his second marriage, Pringsheim married the pharmacist Olga Zimmermann (1902–1992) in Prague on July 16, 1929 .

Ernst Pringsheim attended the Realgymnasium in Breslau up to the Abitur in 1902. He then studied at the universities in Munich , Breslau and 1904 to 1906 in Leipzig natural sciences, especially botany, zoology and chemistry . He was inspired to study physiology by his doctoral supervisor Wilhelm Pfeffer . In 1905 Pringsheim received his doctorate in Leipzig.

In 1906 Pringsheim became an assistant at the Plant Physiological Institute in Breslau, but in the same year he moved to the Botanical Institute of the University of Halle in the same position . In 1909 he completed his habilitation in botany and in 1912 published a well-known monograph on the stimulus movements of plants.

At the beginning of the First World War Ernst Pringsheim took a job in the Hygiene Institute in Halle , from February 1916 he worked in the Hygiene Institute of the University of Greifswald . In September 1916 he was released there.

Immediately drafted into military service, he was a medical soldier in the following years, and later as a bacteriologist with the advisory hygienist of the 5th Army. Immediately after his return he took on the role of the scheduled associate professor , from 1920 to 1923 he was associate professor at the University of Berlin .

In 1923 Ernst Pringsheim received a paid associate professor at the German University of Prague , where he was appointed full professor and director of the Plant Physiological Institute in 1924 . In Prague, like his ancestor Nathanael Pringsheim (1823–1894) , he was primarily concerned with growing algae and, together with Victor Czurda and Felix Mainx, became a pioneer in his field. In the meantime he had also taken on the Czech citizenship. In 1932 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Dismissed in 1938, he emigrated in 1939 and found a job as curator of the Culture Center of Algae and Protozoa in Cambridge, now based in Oban , Great Britain . 1951 Emeritus , researcher Ernst Pringsheim to 1953 in the Strangeway Laboratories in Cambridge on.

In 1953 he returned to Germany as an honorary professor at the University of Göttingen , where he built up the algae collection of the University of Göttingen and continued to publish publications on the physiology of algae. In 1962 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

literature

  • Ekkehard Höxtermann:  Pringsheim, Ernst Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 727 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Dieter Mollenhauer: The protistologist Ernst Georg Pringsheim and his four lives . in: Protist 154 (2003), pp. 157-171
  • Dieter Mollenhauer: Historical aspects of culturing microalgae in Central Europe and the impact of Ernst Georg Pringsheim, a pioneer in algae culture collections , in: Nova Hedwigia ISSN  0029-5035 , Vol. 79, No. 1, 2004, pp. 1–26 ( Short version )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 193.
personal data
SURNAME Pringsheim, Ernst junior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pringsheim, Ernst Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German natural scientist and plant physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1970
Place of death Hanover , Lower Saxony