Josef Simon (plant physiologist)

Josef Simon (born October 10, 1868 in Manderscheid , Rhine Province , † February 13, 1945 in Dresden ) was a German plant physiologist .

Life

Simon began to study pharmacy at the University of Munich . In 1894 he became a member of the Munich Landsmannschaft Transrhenania in the Coburg Landsmannschafter Convent . When he was inactive , he moved to the University of Erlangen . There he passed the pharmaceutical exam in 1895. He then studied chemistry and botany in Munich. In the winter semester of 1896/97 he returned to Erlangen, where he received his Dr. phil. received his doctorate. He then worked as an assistant at the university's bacteriological institute and at the agricultural district research station in Speyer . In 1899 he went to the plant physiology test station (for seeds ) in Tharandt near Dresden. From 1904 he was head of the department and, after the institute moved to Dresden in 1904, head of this institute. He married in 1908 and was appointed professor in 1914. On November 6, 1920 he was taken over as senior man of the Corps Transrhenania with colors in the Hohen Kösener Seniors Convents Association . He retired between 1933 and 1937. The air raids on Dresden cost him his life.

Publications (selection)

• Recent results of soil bacteriological research, their value for agricultural practice . In: Communications of the Economic Society in the Kingdom of Saxony 1908/09, pp. 1–27 (also separately Jena 1908 [= collection of lectures for practical farmers 5).
• The procurement and assessment of seeds for fodder u. Foundation plants with special consideration of this year's trade clover seeds and their origin . Reichenbach, Leipzig 1915.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Obituary Mugler III, Transrhenania No. 59, December 1982.
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 115/137.
3. ↑ Dissertation: About bacteria on and in the cow udder .