Ludwig Diels

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Friedrich Ludwig Emil Diels (born September 24, 1874 in Hamburg , † November 30, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Diels ".

Gravestone of Ludwig Diels in the Botanical Garden in Berlin-Dahlem

origin

Diels' parents were the classical philologist and religious scholar Hermann Diels and his wife Berta Dübell (1847-1919). One of his brothers, Otto Diels (1876–1954), became a chemist and received the Nobel Prize in 1950. The brother Paul Diels (1882–1963) became a Slavist.

Live and act

Diels, who had a doctorate, traveled with Ernst Pritzel to South Africa , Java , Australia and New Zealand, as well as New Guinea shortly before the First World War and Ecuador in the 1930s . In particular, his collections from Australia and Ecuador, which included numerous holotypes , enriched the knowledge of the corresponding flora on a large scale and are standard works to this day, as is his monograph on the Droseraceae from 1906.

Most of his collections went to the Botanical Museum and the Botanical Garden in Berlin-Dahlem , of which he was deputy director from 1913 and director from 1921 to 1945. The collections fell victim to an Allied air raid in 1943 .

On October 21, 1922, he was elected a member ( matriculation no. 3482 ) of the Leopoldina learned society . Since 1931 he was a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

His grave is in the Botanical Garden in Berlin-Dahlem. It was dedicated to the city of Berlin as a grave of honor until 2009 .

family

In 1908 he married Gertrud Biesenthal , a daughter of the Sanitary Councilor Paul Biesenthal (1846–1899) and Helene Augustin . The couple had a son and two daughters.

Taxa named after Ludwig Diels

The following plant genera were named in his honor:

Fonts (selection)

  • Forms of youth and maturity in the plant kingdom. Berlin: Borntraeger, 1906.
  • The orchids. Osterwieck: Harz, Zickfeldt, 1908.
  • Preservation of natural monuments and scientific botany . Berlin: Borntraeger, 1914.
  • The algae vegetation of the South Tyrolean dolomite reefs: a contribution to the ecology of the lithophytes. Berlin: Borntraeger, 1914.
  • Substitute substances from the plant kingdom: an aid book for recognizing and utilizing native plants for purposes of nutrition and industry in times of war and peace . Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, 1918.
  • Plant geography . Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1945.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry by Ludwig Diels at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on September 22, 2017.
  2. ↑ 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. 68.
  3. ^ Members of the previous academies. Ludwig Diels. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 13, 2015 (with short biography).
  4. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
personal data
SURNAME Diels, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Diels, Friedrich Ludwig Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1945
Place of death Berlin