Günther Schmid (botanist)

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Wilhelm Gustav Günther Schmid (born August 12, 1888 in Braunschweig , † July 17, 1949 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German botanist and Goethe researcher . His botanical author abbreviation is " WGGSchmid ".

Life

After graduating from high school in 1907, Günther Schmid studied natural sciences with a focus on botany and zoology as well as philosophy and German literary history at the universities of Freiburg and Jena. In 1909 he became an assistant to Ernst Stahl at the Botanical Institute of the University of Jena and in 1912 with a dissertation on carnivorous plants he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . From 1913, Günther Schmid did his military service as a one-year volunteer and during the subsequent First World War, due to illness, served as paymaster for the Landsturm . In 1920 he became an assistant at the Botanical Institute of the University of Halle , habilitated in botany in 1921, was appointed extraordinary professor in 1928 and then worked from 1935 on the history of natural sciences as a scientific assistant in the Botanical Institute of the University of Halle. During this time Günther Schmid held a teaching position for botany and pharmacognosy at the University of Greifswald from 1928 to 1930 . Günther Schmid served in the Volkssturm in 1945 and after the end of the war in June 1945 became the acting head of the Botanical Institute, where he participated in the denazification of the university. In 1946 the state government appointed him full professor for the history of natural sciences and pharmacognosy.

In 1932 Günther Schmid was accepted as a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in the botany section .

Günther Schmidt became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA) in 1933 and subsequently of the National Socialist German Front Fighters ' Union (NSDFB), in 1934 a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare and in 1934/1935 a member of the National Socialist Teachers' Association . In 1945 he became a member of the newly founded Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDP).

Fonts

  • Contributions to the ecology of insectivorous plants . In: Flora, New Series, 4, 1912, pp. 335–383 ( digitized version )
  • To know the oscillation movement . In: Flora, New Series, 11/12, 1918, pp. 327–379 ( digitized version )
  • About organization and slime formation in Oscillatoria Jenensis and the movement behavior of artificial parts. Contributions to the knowledge of the oscillation movement . In: Year books for scientific botany, 60, Leipzig 1921, pp. 572–627
  • The stimulus behavior of artificial parts, the contractility and the osmotic behavior of the Oscillatoria Jenensis . In: Yearbooks for Scientific Botany, 62, Leipzig 1923, pp. 328–419 ( digitized version )
  • Goethe, Thuringian laboratory technicians and a fragment of the Faust legend . Max Niemeyer, Halle 1937
  • Fate of a Goethe script. Finds of the history of printing on the theory of colors . Workshops Burg Giebichenstein, Halle 1937
  • Goethe and Mollweide in Halle . Burg Giebichenstein workshops, Halle 1939
  • Goethe and the natural sciences. A bibliography . Hall 1940
  • Chamisso as a naturalist, a bibliography . Koehler, Leipzig 1942

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personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmid, Wilhelm Gustav Günther (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and Goethe researcher
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1949
Place of death Halle (Saale)