Johannes Abromeit
Johannes Abromeit (born February 17, 1857 in Paschleitschen ( Kraupischken parish , Ragnit parish , East Prussia ), † January 19, 1946 in Jena ) was a German botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is Abrom.
Life
Johannes Abromeit first attended the higher middle school in Gumbinnen and then switched to the "Realgymnasium auf der Burg" in Königsberg . He studied at the University of Königsberg and received his doctorate in 1884 under Robert Caspary . From 1888 he worked as an assistant at the Botanical Institute in Königsberg. He worked on the plants that Ernst Vanhöffen had brought from West Greenland in 1892 . In 1895 Abromeit was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy . In 1898 his book Flora von West- und Ostpreußen was published . In 1912 he was named associate professor at the university. His herbarium burned during the fighting for Königsberg. He himself fled to Jena in 1944 because of the war.
Dedication names
The German botanist Carl Christian Mez named in his honor, the plant genus Abromeitia from the family of Myrsinengewächse (Myrsinaceae) and the genus Abromeitiella (according to the latest in the genre Deuterocohnia filed) from the family of bromeliads (Bromeliaceae).
Fonts
Monographs
- About the anatomy of oak . Inaugural dissertation from Königsberg. Berlin 1884.
- with Walther Neuhoff , Hans Steffen , A. Jentzsch and Gustav Vogel: Flora of West and East Prussia. Berlin 1898–1940.
- Protection of botanical natural monuments in East Prussia. In: Writings of the Physikalisch-Ökonomische Gesellschaft zu Königsberg in Prussia. Vol. 48, 1907, ZDB -ID 203341-0 , pp. 182-185, (also special print).
- (Friedrich) Otto Wünsche (ed. By Johannes Abromeit): The plants of Germany: A guide to their knowledge, Part II: The higher plants. Zwickau 1871; 9th edition. Leipzig 1909; 10th, revised edition, Leipzig and Berlin 1916.
Essays
- Correction of Sanio's essay on the numerical proportions of the flora of Prussia. In: Writings of the physical-economic society to Königsberg. 25, 1885, pp. 135-139.
- Report on the botanical investigation of the Ortelsburg district. In: Writings of the physical-economic society to Königsberg. 28, 1888, pp. 49-57.
- Report on the botanical investigation of the waters of the Schlochau district by Professor Caspary, based on his handwritten notes. In: Writings of the physical-economic society to Königsberg. 29, 1889, pp. 86-93.
- Systematic compilation of the more important finds from new locations. In: Writings of the physical-economic society to Königsberg. 31, 1891, pp. 18-33.
- Systematic directory of the remarkable plants collected in the summer of 1893. In: Writings of the physical-economic society to Königsberg. 35, 1895, pp. 54-62.
- Report on the 38th annual meeting of the Prussian Botanical Association in Sensburg on October 7, 1899. In: Writings of the physical-economic society in Königsberg. 41, 1900, pp. 1-70.
swell
- Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names. Edited by Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
- Jan-Peter Frahm, Jens Eggers: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists . tape 2 . Self-published, Norderstedt 2001, ISBN 3-8311-0986-9 , p. 11 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Johannes Abromeit in the catalog of the German National Library
- Author entry and list of the plant names described for Johannes Abromeit at the IPNI
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry of Johannes Abromeit at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on May 23, 2016.
- ↑ a b Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abromeit, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paschleitschen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1946 |
| Place of death | Jena |