Hugo Miehe

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Hugo Robert Heinrich August Miehe (born August 12, 1875 in Braunschweig , † March 9, 1932 in Berlin ) was a German botanist and university professor. His botanical author's abbreviation (he described algae and mushrooms) is " Miehe ".

Life

After attending school, Hugo Miehe studied botany from 1894 to 1899 at the Universities of Göttingen , Munich and Bonn . He was a student of Eduard Strasburger (1844-1912) and Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845-1920). At the latter university he graduated as Dr. phil. The topic of his dissertation was: Histological and experimental studies on the structure of the stomata of some monocots . In 1902 he completed his habilitation at the University of Leipzig . The subject of his habilitation thesis was about correlative influencing of the geotropism of some joint plants.

In 1903 Hugo Miehe qualified as a lecturer in botany at the University of Leipzig. From 1908 to 1916 Hugo Miehe was an associate professor at Leipzig University. At that time (1909/10) he was involved in botanical research in Buitenzorg on Java and then published "Javanese Studies". From 1916 to 1932 he was professor of botany at the Agricultural University of Berlin , where he was also director of the Institute for Botany and Agriculture.

He became known nationwide through the Miehe's pocket book of botany named after him .

Hugo Miehe was married to Else nee Kaudela. In 1924 he was accepted into the Masovia Hunting Corps in Berlin .

Publications (selection)

  • The bacteria and their importance in practical life , Leipzig, 1907.
  • The appearances of life. Basic problems of modern biology , 1907.
  • The self-heating of the hay. A biological study , Jena, 1907.
  • Javanese Studies , Leipzig, 1911.
  • Cell theory and anatomy of plants , Leipzig, 1911.
  • Further investigations into the bacterial symbiosis in Ardisia crispa . In: Yearbook for Scientific Botany, 58 (1917), p. 29ff.
  • Pocket book of botany , two volumes, Leipzig, 1919–1920
  • The Archiplasm, Reflections on the Organization of the Plant Body , 1926.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Miehe, Hugo (1875-1932) in the International Plant Names Index , accessed on February 3, 2019
  2. ↑ Heinz-Elmar Tenorth: History of the University of Unter den Linden 1810-2010 , 2014, p. 749.
personal data
SURNAME Miehe, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miehe, Hugo Robert Heinrich August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1932
Place of death Berlin