Hermann August Theodor Harms

Hermann August Theodor Harms (born July 16, 1870 in Berlin ; † November 27, 1942 there ) was a German botanist and taxonomist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Harms ".

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Harms was a botanist at the Botanical Museum in Berlin . He was a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . Harms was also the long-time editor of Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler for his Das Pflanzenreich , which appeared in 107 issues from 1900 to 1953 . For the work The Natural Plant Families by Engler and Carl Prantl , he wrote the chapters on several plant families, including the Bromeliaceae (1930). In 1907 Harms was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Harms is the author of important works on the plant genus Nepenthes . In 1938 he revised this genus and created its three subgenera Anurosperma , Eunepenthes and Mesonepenthes . He was also interested in the genus Passiflora .

Hermann August Theodor Harms died in Berlin in 1942 at the age of 72 and was buried in the Old Twelve Apostles Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg . The grave has not been preserved.

Dedication names

The plant genus Harmsia K.Schum. from the family of mallow (Malvaceae), Harmsiella Briq. of the family Labiatae (Lamiaceae), Harmsiodoxa O.E.Schulz from the family Cruciferae (Brassicaceae), Harmsiopanax Warbende. from the family of the Araliaceae and Neoharmsia R.Vig. from the legume family (Fabaceae) has been named after him.

Works

Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre & Hermann Harms: Genera siphonogamarum ad systema Englerianum conscripta . Leipzig: G. Engelmann, 1900–1907
Alfred Cogniaux & Hermann Harms: Cucurbitaceae-Cucurbiteae-Cucumerinae . Leipzig: Engelmann, 1924 (reprinted Weinheim 1966)

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Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .

Web links

Author entry and list of the described plant names for Hermann August Theodor Harms at the IPNI

Individual evidence

^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 752.
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

personal data
SURNAME	Harms, Hermann August Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German botanist and taxonomist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 16, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	November 27, 1942
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 752.

[Burkhardt2018-2] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]