Joseph Bornmüller
Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller (born February 6, 1862 in Hildburghausen , † December 19, 1948 in Weimar ) was a German botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Bornm. ".
origin
His parents were Franz Bornmüller (1825–1890), editor at the Bibliographical Institute in Hildburghausen and son of a pastor, and his wife Meta Meyer (1832–1875), the only daughter of the founder of the Bibliographical Institute Joseph Meyer .
His brother Alfred Bornmüller was a well-known plant collector and mountaineer.
Bornmüller himself married Frida Amelung in Strasbourg in 1895 , the marriage remained childless.
Live and act
From 1880 to 1881 he was a student at the Royal High School in Leipzig . Then Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller completed an apprenticeship as a gardener in Potsdam .
In 1886 he undertook his first botanical collecting expedition, which took him from the Balkans to Greece . From 1887 to 1888 he was inspector of the Botanical Garden in Belgrade . In the following period he undertook research trips to Greece, Turkey and Syria , Persia , North Africa , the Canary Islands and Madeira . Bornmüller was friends with the botanist Carl Haussknecht ; after his death in 1903 he succeeded him as custodian of the Haussknecht herbarium in Weimar and chaired the Thuringian Botanical Association in Jena . In 1918 he received a titular professorship at the University of Jena .
Honors
In 1942 Bornmüller received the Goethe Medal for Art and Science and in 1943 an honorary doctorate from the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. The plant genera Bornmuellera Hausskn. from the cruciferous family (Brassicaceae) and Bornmuellerantha Rothm. from the family of summer root plants (Orobanchaceae) have been named in his honor.
Works
Bornmüller wrote over 400 articles that dealt with vascular plants as well as lichens and mosses ; including the following work:
- Contributions to the flora of Macedonia. Collections in the war years 1916–1918 . In: Botanical yearbooks for systematics, plant history and plant geography . Volumes 59-61 (1925-1928).
literature
- Jan-Peter Frahm, Jens Eggers: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists (= journal on moss research in Germany; supplementary volume ). Selbstverlag, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-8311-0986-9 , pp. 47–48, limited preview in the Google book search.
- Martin Müllerott: Bornmüller, Friedrich Nicolaus Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 471 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Asuman Baytop: Joseph Bornmüller'in (1862–1948) Anadolu'da Bitki Toplama Gezileri (Joseph Bornmüller's plant-collecting expeditions in Anatolia). In: Osmanlı Bilimi Araştırmaları. Volume 10, No. 2, 2009, pp. 103–114, istanbul.edu.tr , (Turkish)
Web links
- Author entry and list of the plant names described for Joseph Bornmüller at the IPNI
Individual evidence
- ↑ König Albert-Gymnasium (Royal High School until 1900) in Leipzig: Student album 1880–1904 / 05 . Friedrich Grober, Leipzig 1905
- ^ A b c Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bornmüller, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bornmüller, Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hildburghausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 1948 |
| Place of death | Weimar |