Karl Linsbauer

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Karl Linsbauer (1872–1934)

Karl Linsbauer (born October 11, 1872 in Vienna , † December 5, 1934 in Graz ) was an Austrian botanist . His botanical author's abbreviation (he also described algae) is " Linsbauer ". The Austrian botanist Ludwig Linsbauer (1869–1940) is the half-brother of Karl Linsbauer.

Linsbauer graduated from the Piarist high school in Vienna. From 1893 he studied natural sciences at the University of Vienna . While still a student, he became a demonstrator for the plant physiologist Julius Wiesner in 1897 . In 1898 he became an assistant there and received his doctorate in 1899. In 1904 Linsbauer qualified as a professor for anatomy and physiology of plants and in 1906 became an adjunct. In 1910, Linsbauer was appointed associate professor at the then German-speaking University of Czernowitz in eastern Austria-Hungary. In 1911 he was appointed to the University of Graz as successor to Gottlieb Haberlandt . In 1922 Linsbauer became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna .

Linsbauer's experimental and stimulus-physiological investigations on plants, his revision of Julius Wiesner's “Anatomy and Physiology of Plants” and the revision of Camillo Karl Schneider's “Illustrated Concise Dictionary of Botany” were important . The "Handbook of Plant Anatomy", which he founded and published, was of outstanding importance, for which he wrote the " Epidermis " chapter and started the " Stomata " chapter . In addition to his university teaching activities, Linsbauer was also involved in popular education. He was chairman of the botanical specialist group of the Natural Science Association for Styria and in 1922/23 also chairman of the entire association.

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  1. ↑ Linsbauer, Karl (1872-1934) in the International Plant Names Index , accessed on October 13, 2017

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SURNAME Linsbauer, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1934
Place of death Graz