Jan-Peter Frahm

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Jan-Peter Frahm (born February 14, 1945 in Hamburg ; † February 5, 2014 in Belgium) was a German botanist who studied mosses ( bryology ). Its official botanical author abbreviation is " J.-P. Frahm ”.

Live and act

After graduating from the St. Ansgar School in Hamburg (1965) and completing his military service, Frahm studied biology and geography at the University of Hamburg and the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel from 1966 to 1972 . After the state examination in both subjects in 1972, he received his doctorate at the Botanical Institute of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel in the same year , graduating with magna cum laude .

He then worked at the University of Duisburg, where he completed his habilitation and was appointed professor in 1981. Research stays at foreign institutes (e.g. Helsinki, Paris, Stockholm, Chicago) and a visiting professorship at the University of Alberta followed in 1989, before moving from Duisburg to the University of Bonn to the Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants in 1994 .

He received the 1995 Spruce Award of the International Association of Bryologists for outstanding service in bryology . He also received the Medal of Honor from the University of Helsinki. In recognition of his achievements, new species such as Sphagnum frahmii , Porotrichum frahmii , Cololejeunea frahmii , Pylaisiella frahmii or Porothamnium frahmii were named after him, and the new genus Frahmiella in the Brachytheciaceae family also bears his name. In 2014 the Bryological Online Journal Frahmia was named after him.

Frahm volunteered on the Air Quality Commission. There he initiated the first VDI guidelines for bioindication with mosses in the working group “Determination of the effect on lower plants” .

Scientific research

Frahm has researched numerous areas of focus in bryology and has published more than 650 publications. As part of moss research, he also dealt with bioindications and discovered a liverwort species that feeds on protozoa .

Frahm found that a larger number of lichen species has resettled in the cities due to the improved air quality. He also demonstrated that nitrogen-loving lichens and mosses and nitrogen-indicating plants settle along roads through the release of ammonia by car catalysts. Frahm has also suggested using mosses to reduce particulate matter pollution and, as a test, greening a section of the 562 federal motorway with them.

Journalistic activity

Frahm was the editor of the following magazines:

  • Tropical Bryology , international non-profit journal on the biology of tropical mosses
  • Limprichtia , journal on moss research in Germany
  • Bryological newsletters , electronic newsletter with information on moss research in Germany
  • Archive For Bryology , Internet journal

Honors

The moss genus Frahmiella Ignatov, Vanderp is named after him . & YFWang .

Works

Frahm was author and co-author of the following books:

  • Greening with mosses - gardens, roofs, walls, terrariums, aquariums, roadsides - a guide to culture. 3. Edition. Weißdorn-Verlag Jena, 106 pp.
  • with N. Froitzheim, R. Sievers, K. Weddeling: Guide to natural history excursions in the Bonn area. I. The Rhine Valley . Bouvier publishing house, Bonn.
  • Mosses and Liverworts of the Mascarenes and the Seychelles . bod-Verlag, 144 pp.
  • Mosses and Liverworts of the Mediterranean . bod-Verlag, 144 pp.
  • with F. Schumm , NJ Stapper: Epiphytic lichens as indicators of environmental quality . bod-Verlag, 164 pp.
  • The deciduous moss flora of the Baltic Amber Forest . Weißdorn-Verlag Jena, 101 pp.
  • with NJ Stapper, I. Franzen-Reuter: Epiphytic mosses as indicators of environmental quality. An illustrated identification key . Air pollution control commission in VDI and DIN, Düsseldorf, series 40, 152 pp.
  • Moose - An Introduction . Weißdorn-Verlag Jena, 227 pages, 266 color photos.
  • W. Frey , with E. Fischer, W. Lobin: Liverworts, Mosses and Ferns of Europe . Harley Books.
  • with W. Malcolm: The moss family Dicranaceae in New Zealand. An illustrated key . Nelson (Micro Optics Press) 128 pp.
  • with W. Frey: Moosflora (1st edition Stuttgart 1983); 4th edition UTB 1250, Ulmer-Verlag Stuttgart.
  • with J. Eggers: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists . bod-Verlag, 673 pp.
  • Moss biology . Spektrum Verlag, 375 pp.
  • Mosses as bio-indicators . Quelle & Meyer, 187 pp.
  • with E. Fischer: Guide to botanical excursions in the Bonn area . Bouvier-Verlag Bonn, 151 pp.
  • W. Frey, with E. Fischer, W. Lobin: Kleine Kryptogamenflora . Vol. IV, 6th edition, G. Fischer-Verlag Stuttgart.
  • Campylopodioideae, Paraleucobryoideae , in: Flora Neotropica Monographs 54, New York, 238 pp.
  • La bryoflore des Vosges et des zones limitrophes. Book editions 1989, 2002, now as a reprint of the text part in Archive for Bryology 156, pp. 1–138.
  • with W. Frey, H. Kürschner, M. Menzel: Mosses and Liverworts of Mt. Kinabalu. Kota Kinabalu , 91 pp.
  • African Campylopus species (= Bryophytorum Bibliotheka 31), 216 pp.
  • Conspectus of the Central and South American Campylopus species (Dicranaceae) (= Bryophytorum Bibliotheka 5), Vaduz, 144 pp.
  • Edited by J. Hedwig: Species Muscorum on CD.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Isabelle Franzen-Reuter: On the death of Prof. Dr. Jan-Peter Frahm . In: Hazardous substances - keeping the air clean . Vol. 74, No. 4, 2014, p. 118, ISSN  0949-8036 .
  2. ↑ Frahmia - A Bryological Online Journal.
  3. ↑ Mosses reduce particulate matter pollution. Press release from the University of Bonn , Science Information Service , August 2, 2007.
  4. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous 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 .

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personal data
SURNAME Frahm, Jan-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 2014
Place of death Belgium