Guido Brause

Guido Georg Wilhelm Brause (born August 7, 1847 in Kochanowitz , Province of Silesia , † December 17, 1922 in Berlin ) was a German officer and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Brause ".

Life

Brause was the second oldest of six siblings. His father was the general representative of the Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen in Koschentin . After attending grammar schools in Neisse and Oppeln , he became an artillery officer in the Prussian army . During the war against France in 1870/71, he took part in the siege of Metz and the battles at Le Mans and Vionville . He later worked in the 1st Brandenburg Field Artillery Regiment No. 3 in Brandenburg an der Havel and in the 2nd Guards Field Artillery Regiment in Potsdam, most recently as a lieutenant colonel .

After retiring in 1905, he turned to his hobby, botany, and worked as a volunteer at the Botanical Museum and Garden in Berlin and was from 1906 in the Botanical Association of the Province of Brandenburg. He was mainly concerned with ferns . He was instructed by Georg Hans Emmo Wolfgang Hieronymus . He worked so well that he was entrusted with independent identification work. He published together with Hieronymus and also independently, for example in Adolf Engler's Botanical Yearbooks and in Hedwigia.

Fonts

• The fern plants. In: Gustav Lindau (Ed.): Cryptogam flora for beginners. Volume 6, Springer 1914 (together with Wilhelm Lorch, Die Torf- und Lebermoose )

literature

• Th. Loesner: Guido Brause, memo sheet of the Königl. botanical garden and museum in Berlin. Volume 8, No. 75, April 1923, pp. 354-356.

Web links

• Entry in Stafleu, Mennega, Taxonomic Literature, Suppl. III, 1995 (digitized at Biodiversity Library)