Friedrich Oltmanns

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Johann Friedrich Oltmanns (born July 11, 1860 in Oberndorf an der Oste , † December 13, 1945 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Oltm. "

Life

Friedrich Oltmanns began his studies in 1880 at the University of Jena , where he was a student of the botanist Eduard Strasburger . From the winter semester 1881/82 studies at the University of Berlin . He received his doctorate in Strasbourg in 1884 under Heinrich Anton de Bary . In the following years Friedrich Oltmanns was assistant at the University of Rostock , where he completed his habilitation in 1886. In 1893 he received a call as associate professor for pharmaceutical botany at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1902 he was appointed full professor of botany and pharmacognosy and director of the botanical garden .

Oltmanns researched mainly in the field of algae . His standard work "Morphology and Biology of Algae" emerged from this work. In addition, Oltmanns became known for his description of the Black Forest vegetation in the volumes "Plant Life of the Black Forest". In 1930 Oltmanns retired.

Several of his students later became well-known botanists, including Hans Burgeff , Alfons Köckemann , Walter Kotte , Kurt Noack , Erich Oberdorfer , Friedrich Oehlkers , Felix Rawitscher , Hermann Otto Sleumer , Peter Stark , Otto Stocker and Walter Zimmermann . Rawitscher and Hans Kniep worked as assistants at Oltmanns.

From 1921 Oltmanns was a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1935 he was appointed a member of the Leopoldina . The Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , he belonged since 1909 as an associate member.

Testimony about Oltmanns

Karl Ritter von Goebel in a letter to Anton de Bary on June 1, 1886: “He is willing to do any job (and we have no shortage of that), and - as befits the son of a pharmacist - practical. In the faculty, too, he was generally pleased with the zeal with which he carried out his duties during my absence. The only shadow I can cite, in order not to make the picture too bright, is a strange awkwardness in preparation, as long as it is not a question of cutting. However, that is a matter of practice and will work. "

Honors

The algae genera Oltmannsia J.Schiller and Oltmannsiella W.Zimm are named after Oltmanns .

In the Freiburg Unterwiehre a street is named after Oltmanns.

Fonts (selection)

  • 1889: Contributions to the knowledge of the Fucaceae
  • 1920: The history of the flora of Baden
  • 1922: Morphology and biology of algae (3 volumes)
    • Volume 1: Chrysophyceae, Chlorophyceae.
    • Volume 2: Phaeophyceae, Rhodophyceae
    • Volume 3: Morphology, reproduction, algae nutrition, water balance, living conditions, vegetation periods, coexistence
  • 1922: The plant life of the Black Forest (2 volumes)
    • Volume 1: Text
    • Volume 2: Pictures and Maps

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 .

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personal data
SURNAME Oltmanns, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oltmanns, Johann Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberndorf an der Oste
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1945
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau