Ludwig Jost

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Ludwig Jost (born November 13, 1865 in Karlsruhe , † February 22, 1947 in Heidelberg ) was a German botanist and university professor .

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After attending grammar school in Karlsruhe, Jost studied natural sciences at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and, from 1885, at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg . To the Dr. phil. doctorate , he completed his habilitation there and became full professor. He stayed in Strasbourg for 33 years; In 1916/17, during World War I, he was rector of the university. Like many German university lecturers expelled from the Third French Republic after the Armistice of Compiègne , he returned to Germany, where he was appointed to Heidelberg in 1919 .

Jost's main area of ​​work was plant physiology . Physiological questions arose as early as his first botanical studies on the roots of breath , the development of flowers and the formation of annual rings . He focused on developmental and stimulus physiology . With his book Lectures on Plant Physiology , which appeared in four editions between 1904 and 1923 and was translated into several languages, he contributed to the establishment of the subject. For “ Strasburger ”, the standard work for botany students , he contributed the physiology part for seven editions (10th to 16th edition, 1909–1923). He was also a co-founder of the journal for botany .

In 1935 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . Since 1925 he was a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1937 he resigned from the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , of which he had been a full member since 1919. He was a staunch democrat and supported Gerta von Ubisch in her habilitation project and stood up for her when she was dismissed in 1933 for racist and anti-Semitic reasons.

Publications

  • Tree and forest. J. Springer, Berlin 1936; 2nd, revised edition, ed. by Fritz Overbeck. Springer, Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1952 (= Understandable Science. Volume 29).
  • The making of the great discoveries in botany. Speech at the celebration of the foundation of the Reich on January 18, 1930. Carl Winter [ publ .], Heidelberg 1930 (Heidelberg University Speeches ; 9)
  • For Anton de Bary's hundredth birthday. The life's work of a 19th century botanist. G. Fischer, Jena 1930 (from: Journal of Botany, Vol. 24)
  • with Gerta von Ubisch : On the wind question. W. de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1926
  • Guide through the Botanical Garden in Heidelberg. Heidelberg 1922 [Description of the contemporary state of the garden in Neuenheimer Feld]
  • The struggle for existence in the plant kingdom. Heitz, Strasbourg 1916 (Strasbourg, Rector's speech of May 1, 1916)
  • Lectures on plant physiology. Fischer, Jena 1913

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ute Deichmann botany and zoology , in: Wolfgang U. Eckart, Volker Sellin, Eike Wolgast (eds.) The University of Heidelberg under National Socialism . Heidelberg, Springer 2006, pp. 1193–1211, here p. 1208
  2. ↑ Rector's speech (HKM)
  3. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Ludwig Jost. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed June 30, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Jost, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1947
Place of death Heidelberg