Fridolin Krasser

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Fridolin Krasser (born December 31, 1863 in Iglau , South Bohemia , † November 24, 1922 in Prague ) was an Austrian paleobotanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Krasser ".

Life

Krasser was the son of a senior secondary school director and a grand-nephew of Franz Schubert on his mother's side . He studied at the University of Vienna under Julius von Wiesner with a focus on plant physiology . Since 1887 he has been interested in phytopalaeontology when he started working as a volunteer in the geological-paleontological department of the Natural History Court Museum . Wiesner's assistant since 1889, and in 1890 he became a private lecturer in the anatomy and physiology of plants at the University of Vienna. Since 1897 he worked in the same office at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences , in the same year he received a teaching position for phytopalaeontology from the university. From 1895 to 1902 he was a scientific official in the court museum, 1901 extraordinary associate professor and from 1902 to 1906 professor of botany at the higher federal college and federal office for viticulture and fruit growing in Klosterneuburg . From 1906 to 1911 he was associate professor, then full professor at the German Technical University in Prague with a teaching position for phytopalaeontology. During the first half of his career, Krasser mainly worked in the fields of plant physiology and anatomy, but later also in applied botany. The central area of ​​interest, however, has always been paleobotany. The plant genus Krassera O.Schwartz from the family of the black mouth plants (Melastomataceae) is named after him.

Fonts

  • Comments on the system of beeches . Vienna: Hölder, 1894.
  • Contribution to the knowledge of the fossil chalk flora of Kunstadt in Moravia . Vienna 1896.
  • The development of the morphology, development history and systematics of cryptogams in Austria from 1850 to 1900 . Vienna 1901.
  • Fossil plants from Transbai-Kalien, Mongolia and Manchuria . Vienna: On commission from Karl Gerold's Sohn, 1905.
  • Male Williamsonia from the sandstone slate of the lower Lias of Steierdorf in the Banat . Vienna, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1917.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
personal data
SURNAME Krasser, Fridolin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian paleobotanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Jihlava
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1922
Place of death Prague