Hans Burgeff

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Hans Edmund Nikola Burgeff (born April 19, 1883 in Geisenheim (Rheingau); † September 27, 1976 ) was a German botanist , pharmacognostic and university professor. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Burgeff ".

Life

Hans Burgeff studied from 1903 to 1905 at the University of Freiburg (among others with Friedrich Oltmanns ), from 1905 to 1906 in Berlin and from 1906 to 1909 in Jena natural sciences.

In Jena he received his doctorate in 1909 with a thesis on the biology of orchids - mycorrhiza . After a brief activity as an assistant to Wilhelm Pfeffer in Leipzig in 1909 and in Montpellier in 1910, Burgeff became an assistant at the University of Munich , where he completed his habilitation in 1916 .

From 1920 to 1921 he was associate professor at the University of Halle , from 1921 to 1923 again in Munich. On April 1, 1923 he was appointed professor to Göttingen , from where he was appointed full professor of botany and pharmacognosy at the University of Würzburg in 1925 . There he was head of the Botanical Institute at Klinikstrasse 1 (where he deputized for the department for applied botany and the future geobotanist Hans Zeidler was his scientific assistant) and director of the Botanical Garden.

Burgeff dealt with questions of mycorrhiza in the Orchidaceae and the Ericaceae and above all with genetic problems in lower plants, u. a. at Phycomyces nitens .

In 1936 Burgeff was elected a member of the Leopoldina and in 1938 a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1942 he received the Röntgen Prize from the University of Würzburg, where he worked until his retirement. In 1962 he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit.

Along with Noël Bernard, Burgeff is one of the pioneers of orchid mycorrhiza research. He was particularly interested in the cytological structure and function of the orchid mycorrhiza. He developed the concept of mushroom digestion, tolypophagy , which is still valid today. He also dealt with lepidopterology and bryology .

The sculptor and art professor Hans Karl Burgeff was his son.

Fonts (selection)

  • 1909 - On the biology of the orchid mycorrhiza
  • 1909 - The root fungi of the orchids
  • 1911 - The cultivation of tropical orchids from seeds new methods based on the symbiotic relationships between plant and root fungus
  • 1924 - Investigations into sexuality and parasitism in Mucorineen
  • 1932 - saprophytism and symbiosis
  • 1936 - Orchid seed germination and development of their seedlings with an appendix on practical orchid cultivation
  • 1943 - Genetic Studies at Marchantia
  • 1954 - Seed germination and culture of European terrestrial orchids and attempts to spread them
  • 1961 - Microbiology of the raised bog with special consideration of the Erikazeenn-mushroom symbiosis
  • 1967 - Chromosome numbers in the genus Zygaena * / Burgeff, Hans
  • 1965 - Parerga on botanical science with suggestions for the construction of new botanical gardens and the construction of new types of greenhouse facilities

source

  • Dörfelt / Heklau: history of mycology. unicorn

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg: Lecture directory for the summer semester of 1948. University printing house H. Stürtz, Würzburg 1948, p. 18.
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 54.
personal data
SURNAME Burgeff, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burgeff, Hans Edmund Nikola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Geisenheim (Rhine Palatinate)
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1976