Georg Bitter (botanist)

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Georg Bitter , full name Friedrich August Georg Bitter , (born August 13, 1873 in Bremen , † July 30, 1927 ibid) was a German botanist . Its botanical author's abbreviation is " Bitter " - it used to be the abbreviation " Bitt." " in use.

biography

The Botanical Garden at Osterdeich 1906

Bitter - son of a Bremen grain broker - studied botany in Jena, Leipzig and Munich after graduating from high school . Bitter received his doctorate in Kiel in 1896. He then worked in Berlin, Naples and Münster. From 1904 on, he and the Swiss gardener Ernst Nussbaumer laid out the botanical garden on Osterdeich , donated by Franz Ernst Schütte . This facility existed until 1935 in the area of ​​today's Georg-Bitter-Strasse . In 1937 the garden was relocated next to the Rhododendron Park .

In 1913, Bitter received the title of professor from the Bremen Senate .

After the First World War , Bitter was appointed professor of botany at the University of Göttingen . For the work The Natural Plant Families by Adolf Engler and Carl Prantl , he edited “Marattiaceae, Ophioglossaceae” for volume I. 4 (1900). Furthermore, together with Bruno Schütt, he published the 8th edition of the work Flora von Bremen and Oldenburg by FGP Buchenau.

Honors

Georg-Bitter-Strasse in Bremen- Hastedt has been named after him since 1928 . In 1913, Carl Julius Bernhard Börner named after him the plant genus Bitteria from the sour grass family (Cyperaceae).

Works

  • The genus Acaena . 1910.
  • Solana africana. Parts I – III, issued in one volume with cover-title only, are reprints from Botanische Jahrbücher, vol. 49, 54 and 57, 1913-21; pt. IV, with imprint: Dahlem bei Berlin, Verlag des Repertoriums, is extracted from Repertorium specierum novarum regni vegetabilis, Beihefte, of which it forms bd. 16.
  • Flora from Bremen and Oldenburg . 1927.

swell

  • Hermann Farenholtz : Bitter, Friedrich August Georg. In: Historical Society Bremen, State Archive Bremen (Ed.): Bremische Biographie 1912–1962. Hauschild Verlag, Bremen 1969, p. 46 (column 2) to p. 47 (column 2).
  • Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

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personal data
SURNAME Bitter, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bitter, Friedrich August Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1927
Place of death Bremen