Hermann Fischer (botanist)

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Hermann Fischer (born June 14, 1884 in Würzburg , † January 17, 1936 in Munich ) was a German botanist, geologist and historian of science.

Life

Fischer studied in Würzburg and Munich. During his studies he became a member of the Academic Choral Society Würzburg in the Sondershäuser Association . From 1908 he was assistant at the agricultural research station in Würzburg, in 1911 in Königsberg at the agricultural institute of the university and from 1912 at the biological research station (Hofer-Institut) in Munich and Wielenbach (Bavarian pond farming research station). In 1915 he completed his habilitation at the TH Munich, was a military geologist during the First World War and from 1919 a professor at the Rupprecht-Oberrealschule in Munich. In 1931 he became an associate professor for applied plant physiology at the TH Munich.

In 1929 he published a book on the history of botany in the Middle Ages and when he died he wanted to continue Ernst Meyer's botany history beyond the Middle Ages.

For botanical and geological study trips he traveled - often with his wife - the Mediterranean region (including Tunis, Palestine, Syria), Norway and Svalbard as well as the Alps. His main interest was orchids. He also published on plant geography, water hygiene and aquaculture (pond fertilization), nitrogen bacteria, biology of flowers, algae, geology and petrography.

In August 1912 he was one of the 34 founding members of the Paleontological Society .

Fonts (selection)

  • About an occurrence of juvenile forms of Ceratites compressus (Sandb.) E. Phil. Near Würzburg. In: Geognostische Jahreshefte, 19th year for 1906, 187–189, 1908
  • Vitus Auslasser , the first Bavarian botanist and the relationships of his Herbarius from 1479 to the beginnings of Bavarian botany. In: Reports of the Bavarian Botanical Society for the research of the native flora. Vol. 18, Munich 1923, no. 1, pp. 1–31 (digitized pdf)
  • Middle High German receptors from Bavarian monasteries and their medicinal plants. In: Communications of the Bavarian Botanical Society for the research of the native flora. IV, 6, 1925, pp. 69-75.
  • Saint Hildegard von Bingen . The first German natural scientist and doctor. Your life and work. Verlag der Münchner Drucke, Munich 1927.
  • Medieval botany. Verlag der Münchner Drucke, Munich 1929 (= History of Science. History of Botany. Volume 2); Reprint (with a foreword by Johannes Steudel ) Hildesheim 1967.
  • with Erich Nelson : The orchids of Germany and the neighboring countries. Munich 1931.

literature

  • Obituary by Alfred Dultz, Reports of the Bavarian Botanical Society for the Study of Flora, 22, 1936, 139–140

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ Otto Grübel, Special Houses Association of German Student Choral Societies (SV): Cartel address book. As of March 1, 1914. Munich 1914, p. 42.
  2. ^ Palaeontological Journal 1, Issue 1, March 1914
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist, geologist and science historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1936
Place of death Munich