Karl Müller (botanist)

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Karl Müller (born June 14, 1881 in Meßkirch , † March 13, 1955 in Freiburg (Breisgau) ) was a German botanist and oenologist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Müll.Frib. ", It does not abbreviate the actual name here, but stands for" Müller from Freiburg ".

Life

After attending grammar school in Freiburg im Breisgau, the son of a forest director studied botany and chemistry at the universities of Freiburg and Munich and received his doctorate in Freiburg in 1905.

After military service, he became an assistant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (Institute for Plant Diseases) in Bromberg in 1907 and, from 1909, a research assistant at the Baden Agricultural Research Institute Augustenberg near Grötzingen (now a district of Karlsruhe ).

After intermediate positions as head of the main plant protection office in Baden , the vine cultivation institute at the Jesuit Castle in Freiburg and as head of the state phylloxera control , he took over the management of the newly founded Viticulture Institute in Freiburg in 1921. Due to a hearing problem, Müller withdrew from the management of the institute in 1937. 1951 Müller was appointed professor.

Karl Müller grave, Freiburg main cemetery

Act

The scientific focal points of his research activities in Freiburg were vine protection including phylloxera control, viticulture and cellar management. Based on his research results on the biology of downy mildew , he created the so-called incubation calendar with which the control dates for this disease can be determined. He introduced the sulphurisation of the must, which earned him the nickname "Schwefelkarle" .

Müller's scientific work was not limited to researching vines and viticulture, he was one of the most prominent experts on the liverwort flora of Europe in his day and worked on this group of mosses in Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst's famous cryptogamous flora .

Fonts

  • Viticulture Lexicon (1930)
  • History of Viticulture in Baden (1938)
  • 10 years of the Badisches Weinbau-Institut (1931)
  • Agriculture, viticulture, fruit growing, forestry at the Kaiserstuhl (1933)
  • Vine pests and their modern control (1922; 2nd edition)
  • Waldbild am Feldberg then and now (1939)
  • The Feldberg in the Black Forest (ed.). Studies in natural sciences, agriculture, forestry, history and settlement history. (1948)
  • The Liverworts of Europe (1953, 3rd edition) (with an addendum by Johannes Max Proskauer )
  • Communications from the State Association for Natural History and Nature Conservation (published from 1939 to 1950).

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personal data
SURNAME Müller, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and oenologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Messkirch
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1955
Place of death Freiburg (Breisgau)