Felix Eugen Fritsch

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Felix Eugen Fritsch (born April 26, 1879 in Hampstead , London , † May 2, 1954 ) was a British botanist , known as an expert on algae . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " FEFritsch ".

Life

Fritsch's father had a private school in Hampstead. He was assistant to Ludwig Radlkofer in Munich, where he did his doctorate, and then went to University College London and the Royal Botanic Garden in Kew. From 1911 he taught botany (and was the founder of the botany faculty) at Queen Mary College, University of London , with a full professorship from 1924. In 1948 he retired.

He was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1932) and received the Darwin Medal in 1950 . From 1949 to 1952 he was President of the Linnean Society of London and in 1954 he received the Linnean Medal .

In 1912 he started the Fritsch collection of illustrations of freshwater algae named after him. When he died, it comprised 20,000 illustrations of algae species; today it comprises millions and is accessible on microfilm.

In 1929 he was the initiator of the establishment of Great Britain's first freshwater research station in the Lake District (Freshwater Biological Association, FBA). He served on the FBA council until his death. He also made sure that EG Pringsheim's collection of cultures of algae and protozoa found a home in Cambridge (Pringsheim fled the National Socialists from Prague to England in 1938). She came to the NERC (National Environmental Research Council) and is now at Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory in Oban, Scotland .

Fritsch was a good singer, with a preference for German song repertoire, and regularly gave chamber music evenings with his wife. Two of his grandparents were opera singers.

Fonts

  • The Structure and Reproduction of the Algae , 2 volumes, Cambridge University Press 1945
  • with George Stephen West : A Treatise of the British Freshwater Algae , Cambridge University Press 1927 (revision of the monograph by George Stephen West for the Ray Society )

literature

  • EJ Salisbury: Felix Eugene Fritsch. 1879-1954 , Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 9: pp. 130-126

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritsch Collection
personal data
SURNAME Fritsch, Felix Eugen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British botanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Hampstead (London)
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1954