Julius Paul Römer

Julius Römer

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Julius Paul Römer (born April 21, 1848 in Kronstadt ( Brassó , Kingdom of Hungary , now Romania ), † October 24, 1926 there ) was a German- Transylvanian , Austro-Hungarian botanist and teacher.

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Römer was born in 1848 as the son of Stadthann in Kronstadt, Transylvania , and attended the Honterus grammar school there . After graduating from high school, he studied natural sciences and Protestant theology in Vienna , Jena and Heidelberg from 1866 to 1870 . In Jena in 1867 he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in the Burgkeller and was the favorite student of the zoologist Ernst Haeckel . After completing his studies, he worked for a short time as a teacher of mineralogy at his old grammar school in Kronstadt, but had to leave it in 1872 because, as a staunch Darwinist, he refused to take the theological examination. In the same year Römer took a position at the girls 'citizens' school and at the kindergarten teacher training institute, where he taught until his retirement in 1911. Between 1875 and 1926 he published numerous papers in the fields of botany, general biology , geology and zoology. He was considered a staunch supporter of Darwin and a representative of a scientific monism . One of the tragacanth species he discovered in the Eastern Carpathians in 1891 bears his name ( Astralagus römerii Simk. ). In 1873 he founded the Transylvanian Alpine Club . In 1904 he founded the Society of Friends of Nature in Kronstadt . As an active member of the Transylvanian Carpathian Association (SKV) founded in 1880 , he undertook many hikes in the mountains of Burzenland , collecting and describing plants. His herbarium , which he bequeathed to the Kronstadt Museum, contained over 10,000 sheets.

Honors

• Order of the Crown of Romania
• 1924: Honorary doctorate from the University of Breslau
• The Transylvanian Carpathian Association today operates the Julius-Römer-Hütte am Schuler ( Roman : Postăvaru ), above Poiana Brașov .
• A plant is named after him (Astragalus Roemeri).
• A street in Kronstadt and a tourist path are named after him.

Publications (selection)

• The teaching of Darwin as an object of scientific research . In: Transylvanian Association for Natural Sciences in Sibiu (ed.): Negotiations and communications of the Transylvanian Society for Natural Sciences in Sibiu . tape 30 , 1879, p. 11–48 ( digitized version [PDF; 2.4 MB ; accessed on January 14, 2020]).
• The flora of the pinnacle and the small hillside stone. Kronstadt 1892.
• From the flora of the Burzenland mountains in Transylvania. 1899.

literature

• Heinz Heltmann: Memorial exhibition for Julius P. Römer . In: New Kronstädter Zeitung . 14, No. 3, September 1998, ISSN  0934-4713 , p. 3.
• Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 : Römer Julius Paul, 1848-1926 (PDF; 162 kB)
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 96-97.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinz Heltmann: Julius Römer. In: Verlag Neuer Weg, Bucharest - Komm Mit 71, pp. 79–80 ( Memento from January 13, 2020 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Romans, Julius Paul. In: Kronstadt personalities. Democratic Forum of Germans in the Kronstadt district, accessed on January 13, 2020 . 
• Karl Ungar: Commemorative speeches for Dr. Julius Römer and Dr. Julius Bielz . In: Transylvanian Society for Natural Sciences in Sibiu (ed.): Negotiations and communications of the Transylvanian Society for Natural Sciences in Sibiu . No. 77/2 , 1927, pp. 1–10 ( digital version [PDF; 2.2 MB ; accessed on January 14, 2020]).
• Botanical forays to Zeidner Hattert and the surrounding area ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )