Hermann Theodor Geyler

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Hermann Theodor Geyler (born January 15, 1835 in Schwarzbach , † March 22, 1889 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German botanist and paleobotanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Geyl. "

Life

Geyler was the son of a pastor and studied botany in Leipzig and Jena from 1857. In 1860 he received his doctorate from Matthias Jacob Schleiden in Jena with his thesis on plant prints in a freshwater limestone in the Saalthal . From 1864 to 1867 he was in Zurich with Carl Eduard Cramer (1831-1901), where he was also influenced by Oswald Heer , and then he was professor of botany at the Senckenberg Medical Institute in Frankfurt. He was also an honorary curator of the botanical and palaeobotanical collections of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society. From 1873 to 1875 and from 1877 to 1879 he was deputy director of the Senckenberg Society. At the Senckenberg Society, he summarized the plant fossils in a separate department for the first time in the 1870s. After his death, it was reassigned to the geological-paleontological department and it was not until 1941 that it became an independent department again under Richard Kräusel .

He is best known today as a paleobotanist who dealt primarily with the Tertiary and wrote some of the earliest studies on paleobotany of the tropics.

He was a member of the Leopoldina and the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.

In 1871 he married Anna Krahmer, with whom he had a son.

Fonts

  • To the knowledge of the Sphacelarieen, Pringsheim's yearbooks for scientific botany 4, 1865/66
  • About the course of the vascular bundles in the foliage leaf regions of the conifers, Pringsheim's Jahrbücher für scientific botany, 6, 1867/68
  • About fossil plants from Borneo, Kassel: T. Fischer 1875

literature

References and comments

  1. ^ Senckenberg Research Institute, Paleobotany
personal data
SURNAME Geyler, Hermann Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleobotanist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwarzbach (District of Greiz)
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1889
Place of death Frankfurt am Main