Paul Graebner

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The grave of Paul Graebner in the family grave of Paul Ascherson in the Parkfriedhof Lichterfelde in Berlin.

Karl Otto Robert Peter Paul Graebner (born June 29, 1871 in Aplerbeck , † February 6, 1933 in Berlin ) was a German botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Graebn. "

Life

His parents were the high school teacher Robert Graebner († 1881) and the drawing teacher Marie, b. Keßler († 1914). Around 1876 his father was called to the Königstädtische Realschule in Berlin, which Paul attended from 1878. After his father's death, his mother and four children (including Fritz ) were taken in by their brother-in-law Friedrich Otto Gräbner in Kolberg, Pomerania. Here Paul came to the Kgl at Easter 1882. Dom-Realgymnasium, which he left at Easter 1888 with the certificate of one-year voluntary military service.

After attending school, he completed a degree and obtained a doctorate in Dr. phil. In the 1890s he botanized among others in the Jerichower Land and in the Vorharzgebiet together with Paul Friedrich August Ascherson , with whom he also published his fundamental works on Central European flora.

He later became a professor at the Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem , where his research focused on the plant geography of Central Germany .

In addition to his teaching and research activities, he was also the author or co-author and editor or co-editor of numerous botanical specialist books such as the textbook of ecological plant geography named after Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming (1918, 3rd edition), pocket book on plant identification (1918, 20 Edition 1934), The plant-geographic conditions of Bialowies (1918), guide to a tour through the open-air facilities of the Botanical Garden of the University of Berlin in Berlin-Dahlem (1919), textbook of non-parasitic plant diseases (1920), manual of plant diseases. Volume 1. The non-parasitic diseases (1921, co-editor Gustav Lindau ), manual of plant diseases. Volume 2. The vegetable. Parasites (1st part) (1921, co-editor G. Lindau), Handbuch der Pflanzenkrankheiten. Volume 3. The plant parasites (2nd part) (1923, co-editor G. Lindau), contributions to the flora of the primeval forest of Bialowies (1925), the heath of Northern Germany and the subsequent formations in biological consideration (1925, co-authors Fritz Graebner , Friedrich Erdmann ), textbook on general plant geography (1929) and textbook on ecological plant geography (1930–1933).

Graebner found his final resting place in the Lichterfelde park cemetery , right next to his friend and patron Paul Ascherson. His son Paul (1900–1978) was also a botanist who studied the flora of Westphalia .

literature

  • Meyers Großes Personenlexikon , Mannheim 1968, p. 547

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Prof. Dr. phil. Carl Otto Robert Peter Paul Graebner. Friedparks.de, accessed on December 3, 2012.
  2. ↑ http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz21904.html
  3. ^ Vita of Arthur Weisse in: Reports of the German Botanical Society , Volume 51, p. 185
personal data
SURNAME Graebner, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graebner, Karl Otto Robert Peter Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Aplerbeck
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1933
Place of death Berlin