Frits Went

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Frits Went

Friedrich August Ferdinand Christian Went also: Frits Went (born June 18, 1863 in Amsterdam , † July 24, 1935 in Wassenaar ) was a Dutch botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Went ".

Life

Frits was the eldest son of the stockbroker Johannes Went (born February 19, 1811 in Amsterdam; † November 5, 1879 there) and his wife Johanna Emilie Rosalie Adolfine Susewind (born March 10, 1834 Sayner Hütte (Germany); † January 11, 1917 in Utrecht). After attending elementary school and the high school in his hometown, he began studying biology at the University of Amsterdam in 1880 . Here he became a student of Corneille Antoine Jean Abraham Oudemans (1825-1906) and Hugo de Vries (1848-1935). On October 2, 1886, he received his doctorate in Amsterdam with the thesis De jongste toestanden de vacuolen (German: The youngest state of vacuolen ) as a doctor of natural sciences. He then worked as a teacher in Dordrecht , was a teacher at the grammar school in The Hague and became director of an agricultural research facility for the sugar industry in Kagok-Tegal in West Java. On May 18, 1896, he took over the professorship for botany and director of the Botanical Garden of the University of Utrecht , which task he took up on September 21 of the same year with the introductory speech Botanische problemen der laatste 15 years (German: Botanical problems of the last fifteen years ). He stayed here until his retirement in 1933 and served as rector in 1905/06 . He is best known for his studies of plant hormones, especially the role of auxin in phototropism .

Went was awarded an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University and was a member of several scientific societies, including the Royal Society , the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences , the Prussian Academy of Sciences , the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences , the Botanical Society of Japan and the Kungliga Vetenskaps-Societeten i Uppsala . In 1933 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

family

Went married on July 16, 1902 in Amsterdam with Catharina Jacomina Tonckens (born June 22, 1877 in Groningen, † August 1965), the daughter of the governor of Suriname Warmolt Tonckens († September 9, 1922 in Utrecht). There are three sons and two daughters from the marriage. From the children we know:

  • Frits Warmolt Went (born May 18, 1903 in Utrecht, † May 1, 1990 in Little Valley (Nevada)) was also a botanist, married. November 25, 1927 in Zeist with Catharina Helena van de Koppel
  • Johanna Catharina Went (born June 16, 1905 in Utrecht, † 2000)
  • Jan Jacobus Went (born December 30, 1907 in Utrecht) married. on August 2, 1935 in Utrecht with Galina Seliwanowskij (* around 1910 in Werchne Oedinsk)
  • Froukje Marie Went (born June 19, 1910 in Utrecht)
  • Lodewijk Nicolaas Went (born January 4, 1919 in Utrecht) became a professor of genetics at the University of Leiden

literature

  • HP Bottelier: Went, Friedrich August Ferdinand Christian (1863-1935). In: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederland. The Hague, 1979 ( online )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Went, Friedrich August Ferdinand Christian (1863 - 1935) in the archive of the Royal Society , London
  2. ^ Member entry by Friedrich Went (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 22, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Went, Frits
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Went, Friedrich August Ferdinand Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch botanist, professor of botany and director of the Botanical Garden at Utrecht University
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1935
Place of death Wassenaar