Józef Rostafiński

Józef Rostafiński (born August 14, 1850 in Warsaw , † May 5, 1928 in Cracow ; full name Józef Tomasz Rostafiński, in some publications also called Joseph Thomas von Rostafinski ) was a Polish botanist , professor at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, member the Polska Akademia Umiejętności and pioneer of Polish floristry . His botanical author's abbreviation is “ Rostaf. "

Life

He studied science from 1866 to 1869 at the Szkoła Główna in Warsaw. He then studied in Jena (with Eduard Strasburger ), Halle (with Heinrich Anton de Bary ) and in Strasbourg (with de Bary and Hermann Graf zu Solms-Laubauch ). In 1872 he wrote a work on the seed plants found in Poland . From 1877 he was a corresponding member and from 1887 a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Cracow, founded in 1872. In the years 1920–1923 he was dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Krakow, from 1890 to 1907 secretary of the same, and since 1873 an associate and since 1877 a full member of the Physiographical Commission of the Academy as well as an associate professor. In 1881 he became full professor in Cracow and in the same year director of the Botanical Garden, for which he arranged extensive renovations and extensions. Under his leadership, the university's printing plant, which burned down in 1880, was rebuilt.

From 1874 to 1876, he published, as an assistant to Anton de Barys , where he 1873 in Strasbourg already with a study on the systematics of slime molds ( attempt of a system of Mycetozoa was a PhD), with Śluzowce (published in Paris) is the first comprehensive monograph to the group of Myxogastria . He then completed his habilitation in Strasbourg in 1875. In 1874 he was honored with a gold medal by the Belgian Academy for his taxonomy of the Laminariaceen (a brown algae family). His description of the merogony published in 1877 on the bladder wrack went largely unnoticed in Western Europe . In 1886 he compiled an extensive list of the vascular spore plants found in the Kingdom of Poland . One of his books, a guide to wild plant identification in Poland - Przewodnik do oznaczania roślin w Polsce dziko rosnących , had 21 editions between 1886 and 1979.

Rostafiński also dealt with medical-historical topics. For example, he wrote about medicine at the Jagiellonian University in the 15th century and in 1900 published a two-volume work on herbal, animal and mineral remedies from the 12th to 16th centuries mentioned in Polish natural history literature. In the same year he also published two more basic treatises on the botanical vocabulary of Poland. In 1918 he showed in a publication the Polish contribution to the development of botany and zoology.

Józef Rostafiński was the grandfather of the resistance fighter and member of the Armia Krajowa Wojciech Rostafiński .

Web links

• Józef Rostafiński on one page of the University of Cracow's newsletter (Polish)
• Rostafiński, Józef Tomasz in: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950. Vol. 9 (Lfg. 43, 1986), pp. 268f.
• Author entry at the IPNI

literature

• J. Stahnke: Ludwik Teichmann (1823–1895). Anatomist in Krakow. In: Würzburger medical historical reports 2, 1984, pp. 205–267; here: p. 213 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rostaf . In: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1894–1896, Volume 13, p. 1012.
2. ^ Józef Tomasz Rostafiński: Florae polonicae prodromus. Overview of the phanerogams observed so far in the Kingdom of Poland. R. Friedländer & Sohn, Berlin 1873.
3. ↑ Piotr Koehler: Botanika w Towarzystwie Naukowym Krakowskim, Akademii Umiejętności i Polskiej Akademii Umiejętności (1815–1952) , Krakau 2002
4. ↑ Wolfgang Nowotny: Myxomyceten (Schleimpilze) and Mycetozoa (mushroom animals) - life forms between animals and plants In: Wolfgang Nowotny (ed.): Wolfsblut und Lohblüte. Life forms between animals and plants = Myxomycetes (=  Stapfia . Band 73 ). Linz 2000, ISBN 3-85474-056-5 , p. 7–37 (German, English, French, Spanish). PDF on ZOBODAT