Ingeborg Markgraf-Dannenberg

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Ingeborg Markgraf-Dannenberg (born March 18, 1911 in Berlin , † March 22, 1996 in Zurich ) was a German botanist . Your official botanical author abbreviation is " Markgr.-Dann. ".

Live and act

Ingeborg Dannenberg was born in Berlin and studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and Innsbruck . During her studies, she met her future husband Friedrich Markgraf (1897–1987), who had held an extraordinary professorship for botany since 1934 . Because of the war , she could not finish her doctoral thesis . During the war her daughter Vera Markgraf (December 20, 1942), who also became a botanist, was born in Berlin . Her father was bombed in the city. The Markgraf family lived in Tyrol at the end of the war .

Festuca arvernensis, a fescue from France determined by Ingeborg Markgraf-Danneberg

After the Second World War, the family moved to Munich , where Friedrich Markgraf taught at the Ludwig Maximilians University . In 1958, Margrave became full professor of botany at the University of Zurich and was director of the Zurich Botanical Garden and the Institute for Systematic Botany until his retirement .

Despite having a child and after the war, Ingeborg Markgraf-Dannenberg traveled and researched a lot. Her specialty was the fescue (Festuca) .

"Ingeborg Markgraf-Dannenberg remains in the memory of many botanists as a tireless researcher of the systematics of the genus Festuca , one of the grass groups with taxa that are particularly difficult to identify."

- Peter Karl Endress : Botanica Helvetica

In Zurich she worked and researched at the University's Institute for Systematic Botany and in the Botanical Garden. In 1981 Ingeborg Markgraf-Dannenberg received honorary membership of the Swiss Botanical Society . She researched and published well into old age. Jan-Frits Veldkamp named a fescue from New Guinea after her: Festuca markgrafiae.

Works

  • Studies on Irish Festuca Breeds. In: Publications of the Geobotanical Institute Rübel in Zurich. Volume 25, 1952, pp. 114–142 ( digital copy [PDF; 11.33 MB]).
  • The representatives of the genus Festuca observed at the IPE in Spain. In: Publications of the Geobotanical Institute Rübel in Zurich. Volume 31, 1953, pp. 273-286 ( DOI [PDF]).
  • with Erwin Janchen : Festuca. In: Erwin Janchen: Catalogus florae Austriae. Part I: Pteridophytes and anthophytes (ferns and flowering plants). Springer, Vienna 1960, pp. 800–814.
  • Festuca. In: Max Welten et al .: Mapping of the Swiss flora: key to determining critical clans. 2nd Edition. Botanical Institute of the University, Bern 1968, pp. 73–96.
  • The systematic affiliation of Festuca kilimanjarica Hedberg (La posición taxonómica de Festuca kilimanjarica Hedberg). In: Willdenowia. 5 (2), March 1969, pp. 271-278.
  • The genus Festuca in Greece. In: Publications of the Geobotanical Institute Rübel in Zurich. Volume 56, 1976, pp. 92-182.
  • Festuca problems in an ecological-sociological context. In: Supplement to the report on the international symposium "Importance of the sociology of plants for a site-appropriate and environmentally friendly agriculture and alpine pasture" (September 12 and 13, 1978 in Gumpenstein, Styria). BVA for Alpine Agriculture Gumpenstein, 1979, pp. 337-386.
  • Festuca L. In: Thomas Gaskell Tutin et al .: Flora Europaea. Volume 5. Cambridge University Press, 1980, pp. 125-153, ISBN 0-521-20108-X .
  • The Genus Festuca (Gramineae) in Turkey: New Taxa and New Names. In: Willdenowia. 11 (2), December 30, 1981, pp. 201-210.
  • with Jan-Frits Veldkamp: New species of Festuca L. (Gramineae) of Malesia. In: Blumea. 41, 1996, pp. 217-222 ( repository.naturalis.nl [PDF]).

Web links

literature

  • Peter K. Endress: Ingeborg Markgraf-Dannenberg: March 18, 1911 - March 22, 1996 . Obituary. In: Botanica Helvetica . tape 107 , issue 1, 1997, p. 147 f . ( e-periodica.ch [accessed December 29, 2018]).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter K. Endress: Markgraf, Friedrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 22, 2008. Retrieved December 29, 2018 .
  2. ^ Collectors of the herbaria Z + ZT. In: Zurich Herbaria. Retrieved December 29, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Wolfgang Lippert : Friedrich Markgraf - 1897–1987 . In: Bavarian Botanical Society (ed.): Reports . No. 58 , 1987, pp. 281–283 ( bbgev.de [PDF; accessed December 29, 2018] obituary).
  4. ↑ Festuca markgrafiae Veldkamp. In: The Plant List. 2013, accessed December 30, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Markgraf-Dannenberg, Ingeborg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dannenberg, Ingeborg (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1996
Place of death Zurich