Hermann zu Solms-Laubach

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Hermann zu Solms-Laubach, 1915

Hermann Graf zu Solms-Laubach , more precisely Hermann Maximilian Carl Ludwig Friedrich Graf zu Solms-Laubach (born December 23, 1842 in Laubach near Gießen ; † November 24, 1915 in Strasbourg ) was a Hessian , German botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Solms ".

Live and act

Hermann was the son of the former member of the Reichstag, Count Otto zu Solms-Laubach (1799–1872) and his wife Luitgarde, nee Princess zu Wied (1813–1870). He studied in Giessen, Berlin, Freiburg and Geneva. In 1868 he completed his habilitation at the University of Halle . In 1872 he became an associate professor in Strasbourg. In 1879 he became professor and director of the Botanical Garden in Göttingen , and in 1888 in Strasbourg. In 1883 and 1884 he traveled to Java . In 1884 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

He worked on systematics and on paleontology. He was also editor and from 1889 together with Wortmann editor of the Botanische Zeitung .

Hermann Graf zu Solms-Laubach made contributions to the great works of several contemporaries. For example, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius edited the “Rafflesiaceae” (Volume IV No. 2, 1869/1890) and the “Caricaceae” (Volume XIII No. 3, 1874/1900) for the work Flora brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius . On the natural plant families of Adolf Engler and Carl Prantl he wrote about "Pandanaceae" (III 1, 1887), "Rafflesiaceae, Hydnoraceae" (III 6a, 1889) and "Caricaceae" (1893). For the work The Plant Kingdom by Adolf Engler he wrote "Rafflesiaceae et Hydnoraceae" (1901). To Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis by Augustin-Pyrame de Candolle he contributed "Chloranthaceae" (XVI 1, 1869) and "Lennoaceae" (XII, 1873). To Monographiae Phanerogamarum by Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle he contributed “Pontederiaceae” (Volume 4, 1883).

Fonts

  • On the structure and development of the nutritional organs of parasitic phanerogams . In: Yearbooks of Scientific Botany . Berlin 1867–1868.
  • The Lennoaze family . Botanical newspaper, Halle 1870.
  • About the construction of the seeds in the families of the Rafflesiaceae and Hydnoraceae . Botanical newspaper, Halle 1874.
  • About the structure of flower and fruit in the family Pandanaceae . Botanical newspaper, Halle 1878.
  • Origin, domestication and distribution of the common fig tree . Goettingen 1882.
  • Corallina . Naples 1881 (monograph of this plant genus).
  • The sex differentiation in the fig trees . Botanical Newspaper. 1885.
  • Home and origin of the cultivated melon tree, Carica Papaya . Botanical Newspaper. 1889.
  • Introduction to paleophytology . Leipzig 1887.
  • Wheat and tulip and their history . Leipzig 1899.
  • The guiding aspects of a general plant geography . Leipzig 1905.

Honors

In 1896 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In November 1902 he was admitted to the Royal Society as a Foreign Member . From 1903 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1911 he was awarded the Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London . The plant genera Solmsia Baill. from the family of the daphne plants (Thymelaeaceae) and Solms-Laubachia Muschl. from the family of the cruciferous plants (Brassicaceae) have been named after him.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Hermann zu Solms-Laubach
  2. ^ Entry on Solms-Laubach; Herman Graf zu (1842-1915) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
  3. ^ Hermann Graf zu Solms-Laubach obituary in the 1916 yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file).

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personal data
SURNAME Solms-Laubach, Hermann zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Solms-Laubach, Hermann Maximilian Carl Ludwig Friedrich Graf zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Laubach near Giessen
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1915
Place of death Strasbourg