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Ilse Esdorn (* 8. January 1897 in Braunschweig ; † 5. September 1985 ibid) was a German agriculture - botanist .

Life

Ilse Esdorn studied pharmacy in Rostock and passed the pharmaceutical state examination in Braunschweig in 1922. She then worked for five years as an assistant to Gustav Gassner at the Botanical Institute of the Technical University of Braunschweig . In 1924 she completed her doctorate at the University of Kiel with a dissertation on the effects of X-rays on plants. In 1927 she came to Hamburg at the University's State Institute for Applied Botany. Here she completed her habilitation in 1930 with a thesis on the hard shell of the lupine , making her the first pharmacist in Germany to do so. In 1932 she received a teaching position for pharmacognosy at the University of Hamburg . In the following years she mainly dealt with medicinal and medicinal plant research. One of their scientific cooperation partners was the chemist Wilhelm Schuler .

In 1940 Ilse Esdorn became head of department at the Reich Institute for Foreign and Colonial Forestry and Wood Management in Reinbek near Hamburg. In 1941 she was appointed adjunct professor. In 1950 she returned to Hamburg to the Institute for Applied Botany. Until her retirement from active university service, she devoted herself particularly to medicinal and useful plants in tropical Africa. She went on numerous research trips and visited botanical gardens at home and abroad. Her most important publication is the book The useful plants of the tropics and subtropics in the world economy, first published in 1961 .

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  • Investigations into the hard shell of the yellow lupine. In: Scientific Archive for Agriculture, Dept. A, Archive for Plant Cultivation, Vol. 4, 1930, pp. 497-549.
  • The crops of the tropics and subtropics in the world economy. Gustav Fischer Verlag Stuttgart 1961; 2. verb. u. exp. Ed. With the collaboration of Helmut Pirson, ibid. 1973.

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  1. ↑ Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon 19th and 20th centuries. P. 170.
personal data
SURNAME Esdorn, Ilse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agricultural botanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1985
Place of death Braunschweig