Friedrich Margrave

Friedrich Markgraf (born February 1, 1897 in Berlin-Friedenau ; † March 8, 1987 in Zurich ) was a German botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Markgr. "

Live and act

After high school graduated Markgraf a degree in Biology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin and graduated in 1922 with the promotion of Dr. phil. with a dissertation on The Bredower Forest near Berlin: A botanical-ecological study .

As Adolf Engler's last doctoral student , he continued his Botanical Yearbooks . He also finished August of Hayek's Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Balcanicae (Volumes 2, 3). He was "Regional Adviser" for Albania in Flora Europaea and took over the revision of volume IV / 1 of Hegis " Illustrierter Flora von Mitteleuropa " .

In 1939 he married Ingeborg Dannenberg (1911-1996), a botanist who specializes in fescue (Festuca) and has a doctorate .

After completing his habilitation , he initially took on a professorship for botany at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin and, after the Second World War, at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich . There he was also director of the Munich-Nymphenburg Botanical Garden (1956–1958). In 1958, Margrave became full professor of botany at the University of Zurich and was director of the Zurich Botanical Garden and the Institute for Systematic Botany until his retirement .

During his teaching and research activities, he dealt in particular with questions about botanical systematics, the morphology of plants and geobotany, and he also undertook research trips to the Mediterranean . In Albania in particular , he created important foundations for the subsequent research into the local flora.

Honors

The plant genus Allomarkgrafia Woodson from the dog venom family (Apocynaceae) is named after Margrave .

Publications

The Bredower Forest near Berlin , dissertation, Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin, 1922
Small internship in vegetation science , 1926
On the borders of the Mediterranean , 1927
In Albania's mountains , 1930
Plants from Albania 1928 , 1931
Prodromus florae peninsulae Balcanicae / Fasc. 2. Dicotyledoncae Sympetalae 1928-1931 , 1931
Plant geography of Albania , 1932
Prodromus florae peninsulae Balcanicae / Fasc. 3. Monocotyle doucae 1932-1933 , 1933
Vegetation studies in the Bellinchen nature reserve , 1937
Flowers of the Alps , co-author Josef Weisz , 1954
Flowers of the Mountains , co-author Josef Weisz, 1954
Forms of Life , 1957
Illustrated flora of Central Europe / Vol. 4. / Part 1 , 2nd edition, 1958–1963
Messages from the Botanical Museum of the University of Zurich / 219. The morphological structure of a Merendera species in the Turkish steppe , 1962
Guide through the open-air facilities of the Botanical Garden in Munich-Nymphenburg , 1966
Repertorium specierum novarum regni vegetabilis / supplement vol. 30. Prodromus florae peninsulae Balcanicae / vol. 2. Dicotyledoneae sympetalae , reprint 1970
Repertorium specierum novarum regni vegetabilis / Supplement Vol. 30. Prodromus florae peninsulae Balcanicae / Vol. 3. Monocotyledoneae , reprint 1971
Illustrated flora of Central Europe / Vol. 1. Gymnospermae, Angiospermae / Part 2 , 1981

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Author entry and list of the described plant names for Friedrich Markgraf at the IPNI
Meyer's Large Personal Lexicon . Mannheim 1968, p. 857.
Hermann Merxmüller, Walter Guttermann: A new Moehringien clan from the southern Alps. Professor Friedrich Markgraf on his 60th birthday . In: Phyton: Annales rei botanicae . April 30, 1957.
Wolfgang Lippert 1987: Obituaries: Friedrich Markgraf - 1897-1987 , Bavarian Botanical Society, 58, 281–283, Munich.
Peter K. Endress: Margrave, Friedrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 22, 2008 .

Individual evidence

^ Wolfgang Lippert : Obituaries: Friedrich Markgraf (1897 - 1987) . In: Bavarian Botanical Society . tape 58 . Munich 1987, p. 281–283 ( PDF [accessed February 6, 2016]).
↑ Peter K. Endress: Ingeborg Markgraf-Dannenberg: March 18, 1911 - March 22, 1996 . Obituary. In: Botanica Helvetica . tape 107 , issue 1, 1997, p. 147 f . ( e-periodica.ch [accessed December 29, 2018]).
↑ Wolfgang Lippert: p. 282
^ Peter Barnes, Petrit Hoda: Plant exploration in Albania . In: Curtis's Botanical Magazine . Volume 18, Issue 3, 2001, pp. 170-179 ( copy on Barnes-Botany.co.uk ).
↑ 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	Margrave, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 1, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin-Friedenau
DATE OF DEATH	March 8, 1987
Place of death	Zurich

[1] Wolfgang Lippert : Obituaries: Friedrich Markgraf (1897 - 1987) . In: Bavarian Botanical Society . tape 58 . Munich 1987, p. 281–283 ( PDF [accessed February 6, 2016]).

[2] Peter K. Endress: Ingeborg Markgraf-Dannenberg: March 18, 1911 - March 22, 1996 . Obituary. In: Botanica Helvetica . tape 107 , issue 1, 1997, p. 147 f . ( e-periodica.ch [accessed December 29, 2018]).

[3] Wolfgang Lippert: p. 282

[4] Peter Barnes, Petrit Hoda: Plant exploration in Albania . In: Curtis's Botanical Magazine . Volume 18, Issue 3, 2001, pp. 170-179 ( copy on Barnes-Botany.co.uk ).

[Burkhardt_2018-5] 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 .