Hugo von Mohl

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Hugo von Mohl, lithograph by Rudolf Hoffmann , 1858
Page from “Vermischte Schriften” where Mohl's dissertation on cell division was republished.
Hugo von Mohl

Hugo Mohl , von Mohl since 1843 , (born April 8, 1805 in Stuttgart , † April 1, 1872 in Tübingen ) was a Württemberg , German botanist , doctor and university professor. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Mohl ". Mohl is considered to be the discoverer of the core division .

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From 1823 Mohl studied medicine at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , then went on to become a Dr. med. at the University of Munich , where he worked as assistant to Carl von Martius on the anatomy of the fern, cycade and palm trunks (1832). In 1835 he became professor of physiology at the University of Bern . In 1835 he was appointed full professor of botany in Tübingen, where he worked until his death. In 1832 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina , in 1857 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He was also a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris since 1838 , of the Prussian Academy of Sciences since 1847, of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg since 1854 and of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences since 1861 . He was a member of the Royal Society since 1868 as a Foreign Member . The Royal Society of Edinburgh accepted him as an Honorary Fellow in 1870 .

His scientific investigations extended to almost all areas of botany, but above all he promoted the anatomy of plants and made the solid cellulose structure of the plants the subject of detailed and successful investigations.

Also, physiology and evolution has been promoted by him. Mohl distinguished the primordial tube in 1844 and recognized the protoplasm in 1846 , which he assigned the name that is still common today.

Hugo von Mohl's plant collections now form part of the Herbarium Tubingense (TUB) of the University of Tübingen and are managed by the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT .

The parents were the Württemberg jurist and politician Benjamin Ferdinand von Mohl (1766-1845) and his wife Louisa Friederica Autenrieth (1776-1843). She was a sister of Johann Heinrich Ferdinand Autenrieth , Chancellor of the University of Tübingen. Mohl's brothers were: Robert von Mohl , Julius Mohl and Moritz Mohl .

Awards

Works

  • On the construction and winding of the tendrils and creepers , Tübingen, Heinrich Lampp 1827
  • On the construction and shapes of the pollen grains , Bern, Chr. Fischer & Co 1834
  • Micrography or Instructions for Knowledge and Use of the Microscope (1846)
  • Basic features of the anatomy and physiology of the vegetable cell (1851).

A number of important treatises are collected in his " Mixed writings on botanical content " (1845). He also made contributions to the Palmenwerk Historia naturalis Palmarum by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius . From 1843 he published the Botanische Zeitung with Diederich von Schlechtendal .

Secondary literature

literature

Web links

Commons : Hugo von Mohl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 170.
  2. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed March 22, 2020 .
  3. ^ Royal Württemberg Court and State Manual 1847, page 45
  4. ↑ Hans Körner "The Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art and its Members" in: Journal for Bavarian State History , Vol. 47 (1984), pp. 299–398 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Mohl, Hugo von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mohl, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1872
Place of death Tübingen