Ignaz Urban

Ignaz Urban 1881

Memorial plaque at Thuner Platz 2–4, in Berlin-Lichterfelde

Ignaz Urban (born January 7, 1848 in Warburg , † January 7, 1931 in Berlin ; also Ignatz Urban , Ignatius Urban ) was a German botanist and specialist in West Indian flora. Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Urb. "

Life

Urban attended the school Marianum in Warburg and then studied philology and natural sciences at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn and at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where he in 1873 as a student of Prof. Paul Friedrich August Ascherson to Dr. phil. PhD. From 1873 to 1878 he taught as a teacher at the pedagogy in Groß-Lichterfelde . During this time he published articles about the local flora of Lichterfelde and especially about the snail clover .

In 1878, at the age of 30, Urban became the first assistant at the Botanical Garden in Schöneberg , in 1883 its custodian and after the death of director August Wilhelm Eichler from 1887 to 1889, when Adolf Engler was appointed as successor interim director. In 1885 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . From 1889 to 1913 he was sub-director and professor at the Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin in Dahlem . As such, he played a key role in relocating the Botanical Garden from today's Heinrich-von-Kleist-Park in Schöneberg to Dahlem (between 1899 and 1910). In 1903 Urban received the title of Privy Council as an award . In 1914 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Ignaz Urban was buried in the Lichterfelde park cemetery. After the grave was closed, the tombstone was moved to the Berlin Botanical Garden in his memory.

He was married to Martha Urban, nee Kurtz, (* March 22, 1855, † February 16, 1920). Together they had a son Bruno Urban (born April 3, 1885, † October 1, 1918). The plant genus Marthella Urb is named after Martha Urban . from the Burmanniaceae family .

Act

Urban's specialty was the morphology , biology and systematics of phanerogams , the establishment of new genera and species of flowering plants ; especially those from the tropics of South America and the Caribbean. Urban named many plants from this region and was the first to describe them scientifically. One of the most famous plants that Urban discovered is the Passiflora tulae . The American botanist Ellsworth Paine Killip (1890–1968) named another passion flower after Urban Passiflora urbaniana .

Works

Published in the yearbook of the Royal Botanical Gardens and the Botanical Museum in Berlin
- Bd. I, 1881: History of the King. botanical garden and the Koengl. Herbariums , […], pp. 1–164
- Vol. II, 1883: Monograph of the Turneraceen Family , pp. 1–150
- Vol. II, 1883: On the Biology and Morphology of the Rutaceans , pp. 366-405
- Vol. III, 1884: Smaller messages about plants of the Berliner bot. Gartens und Museums , Part I, pp. 234–252
- Vol. IV, 1886: Smaller notices about plants of the Berliner bot. Gartens und Museums , Part II, pp. 241–259
- Vol. IV, 1886: The pollination facilities in the Loasaceae , pp. 364–388
Symbolae Antillanae Seu Fundamenta Flora Indiae Occidentalis , Fratres Borntraeger, Lipsiae 1902
Flora from Groß-Lichterfelde and the surrounding area . In: Negotiations of the Botanical Association for the Province of Brandenburg. 22nd year, Berlin 1881, p. 26 ff. Digitized

Taxa named after Urban

The following plant genera were named in his honor:

Neo-urbania Fawc. & Rendle from the orchid family , now Maxillaria

Ignurbia B. North. from the sunflower family (Asteraceae)

Urbananthus R.M. King & H.Rob. from the sunflower family (Asteraceae)

Urbanella Pierre from the family of the sapotaceae (Sapotaceae)

Urbania Phil. From the verbena family(Verbenaceae)

Urbaniella Dusén ex Melch. from the trumpet treefamily(Bignoniaceae)

Urbanisol Kuntze from the sunflower family (Asteraceae)
Urbanodendron Mez from the laurel family(Lauraceae)
Urbanodoxa Muschl. from the cruciferous family(Brassicaceae)
Urbanoguarea F. Allam. from the mahogany family(Meliaceae)
Urbanolophium Melch. from the trumpet treefamily(Bignoniaceae)
Urbanosciadium H. Wolff from the umbelliferae family(Apiaceae)

Web links

Commons : Ignaz Urban - collection of images, videos and audio files

Author entry and list of the described plant names for Ignaz Urban at the IPNI

Individual evidence

↑ member entry of Ignatz Urban with the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on 18 June 2016th
↑ ^a ^b Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic plant names - extended edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Urban, Ignaz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Urban, Ignatz; Urban, Ignatius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 7, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH	Warburg
DATE OF DEATH	January 7, 1931
Place of death	Berlin

[1] r entry of Ignatz Urban with the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on 18 June 2016th

[Burkhardt_2018-2] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic plant names - extended edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .