Franz Firbas
Franz Firbas (born June 4, 1902 in Prague , † February 19, 1964 in Göttingen ) was a German botanist .
Life
Franz Firbas studied at the German University of Prague and received his doctorate in 1924 with a dissertation on sociological and ecological problems in rock plants in northern Bohemia. In 1928 he moved to Frankfurt, where he in 1931 with a thesis on the links between xeromorph built bog plants habilitation and their nutrient balance. From 1933 to 1939 he worked at the University of Göttingen . In 1939 he then moved to Stuttgart-Hohenheim and in 1941 to the National Socialist elite university, the Reich University of Strasbourg . He returned to Göttingen in 1946, where he became head of the newly founded Systematic Geobotanical Institute in 1952.
In 1947 he was elected a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and in 1952 a member of the Leopoldina . In 1958 he received the Albrecht Penck Medal .
Services
Inspired by the work of Lennart von Posts , Franz Firbas created important foundations for modern research on the history of vegetation with his work on the determination of the forest density and vegetation of forestless areas with the help of pollen analysis in 1934 and then in 1937 with the pollen analysis of cereal production .
His specialties were paleobotany and palynology .
Firbas has worked for many years on the standard work for university students of botany, the Strasburger university textbook . From the 20th to the 28th edition (1939–1962) he was responsible for the sections seed plants and plant geography .
Works
- For forest development in the interglacial of Schladming an der Enns . Beih. Offered. Centralbl., 41, 1925, pp. 295-310
- Contributions to the knowledge of the shale coals of the Inn Valley and the interglacial forest history of the Eastern Alps . Z. f. Gletscherkde., 15, Berlin 1927 pp. 261-277
- Via young diluvial and alluvial peat storage facilities in the Marga mine near Senftenberg ( Niederlausitz ). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1928
- The vegetation development of the Central European Late Glacial. Weidmann, Berlin 1934 / Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 1935
- Contributions to the late and post-glacial vegetation history of the Vosges . Swiss beard, Stuttgart 1948
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Late and post-glacial forest history of Central Europe north of the Alps . Gustav Fischer, Jena
- Vol. 1: General forest history. 1949
- Vol. 2: Forest history of the individual landscapes. 1952
- About new finds of plant-bearing deposits in the southern Po Valley near Forli. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1954
- The vegetation development in the late glacial of Wallensen im Hils . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1954
literature
- Werner Lüdi u. Otto L. Lange (Red./Hrsg.): Festschrift Franz Firbas. (= Publications of the Geobotanical Institute of the Eidg. Techn. Hochschule, Rübel Foundation, in Zurich. 37th issue), Huber, Bern 1962
- Hans-Jürgen Beug : Franz Firbas, 1902 - 1964. Taxon, Vol. 14, No. 3 (1965), pp. 77-83
- Hans-Jürgen Beug: In memory of Franz Firbas (1902-1964) on the occasion of his 100th birthday . Ice Age and Present, 52: 1–3, Hannover 2003
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz Firbas in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 80.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Firbas, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 4, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th February 1964 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |