Georg Kükenthal

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Georg Kükenthal (born March 30, 1864 in Weißenfels , † October 20, 1955 in Coburg ) was a German theologian and botanist . His botanical author abbreviation is “ Kük. "; earlier was also the abbreviation “ Kükenth. " in use.

Life

Georg Kükenthal was born in Weißenfels in 1864 as the son of a royal Prussian tax inspector. His older brother was the zoologist Willy Kükenthal . He attended elementary school in Weißenfels and graduated from the Stiftgymnasium in Zeitz in 1882 . This was followed by one-year voluntary service with the 7th Württemberg Infantry Regiment No. 125 .

Ev. Church of St. Giles in Grub am Forst

Theological career

Kükenthal studied Protestant theology from 1882 to 1885 at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and the Friedrichs University in Halle under Willibald Beyschlag . In Tübingen he joined the Landsmannschaft Ghibellinia and in Halle the Landsmannschaft Pomerania . After his parents moved to Coburg, he passed the first state examination in theology there in 1885 and was ordained as a ministerial candidate on November 29th. In December 1886 he was parish administrator in Weitramsdorf and from December 1887 to March 1895 Protestant pastor in Großwalbur and Breitenau and from 1895 in Grub am Forst . 1907 followed the position of the city and senior pastor of St. Moriz in Coburg. In 1914 Kükenthal was elected superintendent of Coburg city and country. On July 8, 1920, he was finally elected as the last general superintendent and thus supreme clergyman of the independent regional church of Coburg. After the Coburg regional church had joined the Bavarian regional church on April 1, 1921, Kükenthal was head of the Evangelical-Lutheran deanery in Coburg until his retirement on July 1, 1928.

Botanical career

During his time at the elementary school in Weißenfels, Kükenthal was encouraged to work with plants. He never studied botany, but learned botanical knowledge in his early years as a country pastor. Its first scientific publication in the field of botany was in 1890.

Early on in his botanical work he placed a focus on the sour grasses (Cyperaceae), which he researched especially with Cornelius Osten . Later he also dealt with the complex genera Rubus , the willow ( Salix ), the finger herbs ( Potentilla ) and the roses ( Rosa ).

In 1913, at the invitation of the Russian government, he took part in a three-month excursion to Turkestan . On a trip to Corsica in 1914 , he was surprised by the outbreak of World War I and interned by the French for three years until he was allowed to return to Coburg in December 1917.

For the plant The plant kingdom of Adolf Engler Georg Kükenthal contributed to the "Cyperaceae Caricoideae" 1909 Chapter and for the 1935 to 1936 published edition he wrote the part of "Cyperaceae Scirpoideae-Cyperaceous". In 1930 he wrote together with Hans Woldemar Schack articles on the flora of Coburg and the surrounding area (roses and blackberry bushes) . In old age he also devoted himself to studying mosses. Adam Brückner (1862–1933) set up a list of the mosses found in the Duchy of Coburg in 1902, including peat moss , by 38 species. Of his 143 published works, there was only one bryological.

Georg Kükenthal owned a herbarium of sedges ( Carex ) with 45,000 specimens . At that time it was the largest herbarium in the world for this genus. This herbarium came to Berlin, where it was later lost in a fire. Herbarium specimens from other parts of his collection are still preserved in the Natural Science Museum in Coburg.

Kükenthal was married and had a daughter. His wife Martha also helped as a plant collector; She has collected specimen copies in the Herbarium Hamburgense (HBG).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Mechow: Renowned CCER. Historia Academica, Volume 8/9, pp. 138 f.
  2. ↑ Harald Sandner: Coburg in the 20th century. The chronicle of the city of Coburg and the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from January 1, 1900 to December 31, 1999 - from the "good old days" to the dawn of the 21st century. Against forgetting . New Press Publishing House, Coburg 2002, ISBN 3-00-006732-9
  3. ↑ Osten, Cornelius (1863-1936) on plants.jstor.org
  4. ↑ Office of the Federal President
  5. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
personal data
SURNAME Kükenthal, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenfels
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1955
Place of death Coburg