Helmut Josef Braun

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Helmut Josef Braun (born December 30, 1924 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , † October 25, 2010 in Stegen ) was a German forest scientist .

Life

Helmut J. Braun studied biology, chemistry and geography in Munich from 1947 to 1953. In 1953 he was awarded a doctorate at the Munich Forest Botanical Institute. rer. nat. PhD . 1953 to 1961 he was an assistant at the forest science faculties in Munich, Hann. Münden, Göttingen and Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1961 he completed his habilitation and received the venia legendi for forest botany at the University of Freiburg. He then worked as a lecturer in Freiburg for two years. In 1963 he was a full professor of general botany (plant anatomy) at the Agricultural University of Wageningen in the Netherlands in 1965 . From 1965 he was professor and full professor at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

Publications

  • Contributions to the history of the development of the medullary rays. Dissertation, Munich, Faculty of Natural Sciences, October 16, 1953
  • The organization of the trunk of trees and shrubs. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1963, revision of the habilitation thesis ( The histological structure and the hydrosystem of the trunk wood of the trees. )
  • Handbook of Plant Anatomy. Volume 9 [seed plants], part 1: Functional histology of the secondary stem axis, 1. The wood. 2nd Edition. Borntraeger, Berlin 1970, ISBN 3-443-14003-3
  • Construction and life of trees. Rombach, Freiburg 1980, ISBN 3-7930-9021-3 ; 4th edition, Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1998, ISBN 3-7930-9184-8
  • Forest botany textbook. Fischer, Stuttgart and New York 1982, ISBN 3-437-20254-5
  • with Beate M. Mehne: Studies on the epidemic hypothesis of forest diseases. Grafting attempts to transfer symptoms to healthy plants. Institute for Forest Botany and Wood Biology, Freiburg im Breisgau 1989

literature

  • Viktor Carl: Lexicon of the Palatinate personalities. 2nd edition, Hennig, Edenkoben 1998

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personal data
SURNAME Braun, Helmut Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forest scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 2010
Place of death Webs