Eugene Askenasy

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Eugene Askenasy
Askenasy's grave in Frankfurt am Main

Eugen Askenasy (born May 5, 1845 in Tarnopol , † August 24, 1903 in Sölden ) was a biologist . Its botanical author abbreviation is " Askenasy ".

From 1855 to 1859 he attended the Kreuzgymnasium in Dresden . In 1862 he undertook agricultural studies at the Hohenheim Academy . In 1864 he was a student of botany at Heidelberg University with Julius Sachs and Wilhelm Hofmeister . After receiving his doctorate in 1866 , he completed his habilitation six years later with the thesis of botanical-morphological studies . In 1881 he became associate professor and in 1897 honorary professor in Heidelberg. Among other things, he researched the physiology of growth and the physical principles of water transport by plants as well as aspects of algae science . In 1895 he set up the cohesion theory for rising juice.

Eugen Askenasy was accepted into the Imperial German Academy of Natural Scientists in Halle ( Leopoldina ) in 1886 and was also a member of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society , the Natural History Society in Heidelberg and the German Botanical Society . His library is bequeathed to the botanical institute in Heidelberg, his herbarium to the Senckenbergianum in Frankfurt.

Publications

  • Contribution to the knowledge of the chorophyll and some of the same accompanying dyes
  • Contributions to the Critique of Darwin's Doctrine, 1872
  • On a new method for determining the distribution of the growth intensity in growing parts, 1878
  • On some relations between growth and temperature, 1890
  • Contributions to the explanation of the rise in juice, 1896

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personal data
SURNAME Askenasy, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Biologist (botanist)
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarnopoly
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1903
Place of death Soelden