Franz Josef Niedenzu

Franz Josef Niedenzu (born November 29, 1857 in Köppernig , † September 30, 1937 in Braunsberg , East Prussia ) was a Silesian , German botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Nied. "

Life

Niedenzu attended grammar school in Neisse and graduated from high school there in 1878. He then studied mathematics and natural sciences in Breslau and became an active member of the Catholic student association K..St.V. Unitas Breslau in KV . After his state examination in 1886, he first worked at the Johannesgymnasium in Breslau, then from 1888 onwards he became scientific assistant to the botanist Adolf Engler and received his doctorate in 1889. When Engler was called to Berlin, Niedenzu also went to Berlin with him.

In 1892, Niedenzu was given the chair for mathematics and natural sciences at the Lyceum Hosianum in Braunsberg , which was later renamed the "State Academy". In 1893, Niedenzu founded the Braunsberg Botanical Garden and grew the first tomatoes and other South American plants in the eastern region.

Niedenzu's main area of work was systematic botany, based on the work of his teacher Engler, who had established a new system of plants.

Niedenzu was the editor of the 20th to 22nd edition of the Flora von Deutschland by Christian August Friedrich Garcke . Niedenzu became famous for his work on the Malpighian family ; for the work The Plant Kingdom by Adolf Engler he wrote the corresponding chapter "Malpighiaceae". He contributed nine family descriptions to the work The Natural Plant Families by Engler and Carl Prantl .

He described numerous new species and six new genera: Alcoceratothrix (= Byrsonima ), Callyntranthele (= Blepharandra ), Cordobia , Diaspis (= Caucanthus ), Malpighiodes and Sprucina (= Jubelina ).

Niedenzu, rector of the Braunsberg Academy since 1925, retired in 1926. In addition to his membership in the Unitas-Breslau connection, he was also an honorary philistine of the Königsberg KV connections Borussia and Tannenberg.

Honors

Prussian Red Eagle Order IV class
The plant genera Niedenzua Pax from the family of the milkweed family (Euphorbiaceae) and Niedenzuella W.R. Anderson from the family of the Malpighiaceae are named after him.

literature

Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names. Edited by Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
Siegfried Koß in Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 7th part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 9). Akadpress, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-939413-12-7 , p. 108 f.

Web links

Literature by and about Franz Josef Niedenzu in the catalog of the German National Library
Short biography
Author entry and list of the described plant names for Franz Josef Niedenzu at the IPNI

Individual evidence

↑ Buchholz: Braunsberg through the centuries - chap. 9. Retrieved January 29, 2017 .
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Niedenzu, Franz Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 29, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH	Köppernig
DATE OF DEATH	September 30, 1937
Place of death	Braunsberg , East Prussia

[1] Buchholz: Braunsberg through the centuries - chap. 9. Retrieved January 29, 2017 .

[Burkhardt_2018-2] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .