Hugo Gross

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Hugo Otto Gross (born November 9, 1888 in Upidamischken , † November 1, 1968 in Bamberg ) was a German teacher and botanist . His botanical author abbreviation is " H.Gross ".

Life

Hugo Gross passed his matriculation examination at the Realgymnasium in Tilsit in 1908 and then studied at the University of Königsberg . In 1912 he was at John Abromeit with his work on contributions to the knowledge of Polygonaceen summa cum laude doctorate . On March 1, 1913, he completed his studies with the state examination for the higher teaching post in the subjects botany, zoology, chemistry, mineralogy and physics and then became a teacher in Tilsit. From 1916 to 1918 he did military service. In May 1919 Gross was appointed to Allenstein as a teacher.

The escape from East Prussia towards the end of the Second World War led him from Königsberg via Eberswalde to Freiberg in Saxony, where the family was taken in by the geologist Rudolf Grahmann . After a failed attempt to escape to Bavaria, he was interned near Eger . A septic knee joint inflammation in the Wiesenthal camp near Asch caused his leg to become stiff. The Czechoslovak prehistorian Karel Absolon made sure that the Gross family could be brought to Selb in January 1946, albeit under extremely difficult circumstances . He had to refuse the prospect of a job at the Moor Institute in Hanover , as he was no longer able to work in the field for health reasons. Through his wife's mediation, Gross got a job as a teacher at the humanistic old grammar school in Bamberg, now the Kaiser Heinrich grammar school , and was retired as a grammar school professor in February 1954.

Hugo Gross is the first to describe numerous botanical taxa . His scientific focus was on researching the climate and vegetation history, prehistory and the Quaternary geology of East Prussia.

In 1940 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . He was a member of the Königsberg Learned Society and in 1942 was the first to receive the RM 3000 research prize for freelance researchers in Königsberg. The Heidelberg Academy of Sciences appointed him a corresponding member in 1953. In 1956 the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Bonn awarded him an honorary doctorate and in 1958 he received the "Medaille bene merenti" in silver from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1957 he became an honorary member of the Medical-Physical Society Erlangen . The University of Göttingen awarded him the Gauß Weber Medal.

Fonts

  • East Prussia moors with special consideration of their vegetation. In: Writings of the Physikalisch-Ökonomische Gesellschaft zu Königsberg . 53, 1912, pp. 183-264 digitized
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the Polygonaceae. In: Botanical yearbooks for systematics, plant history and plant geography . 49, 1913, pp. 234-339 digitized

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hugo Groß's membership entry at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 5, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Big, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gross, Hugo Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Upidamishks
DATE OF DEATH 1st November 1968
Place of death Bamberg