Lujo Adamović

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Lujo Adamović , also Lulji and Lucian , (born July 31, 1864 in Rovinj , † July 19, 1935 in Dubrovnik ) was an Austro-Hungarian , Croatian , then Yugoslav botanist and plant collector . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Adamović ".

Life

Adamović was born in Rovinj and grew up in Dubrovnik. He studied in Vienna and Berlin with Anton Kerner von Marilaun and Adolf Engler .

Adamović worked as a royal Serbian high school teacher in the Serbian Zaječar , Pirot , Gornji Milanovac and Vranje . From 1901 to 1905 Adamović was the director of the Belgrade Jevremovac Botanical Garden . He lived temporarily in Vienna and in Italy . Adamović was a private lecturer in plant geography in Vienna . As an associated member of the Yugoslav Academy for Science and Arts in Zagreb published on the flora of Dalmatia, Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro.

Scientific work

Adamović mainly dealt with the vegetation of the Balkan Peninsula. In his time he was one of the best experts on the vegetation and flora of Southeastern Europe and wrote fundamental works on it. In the mentor Richard von Wettstein , he had an important advocate for his research stays in the regions of the Danube Plain, Romania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Thrace, Thessaly, and the Apennine Peninsula , through which he acquired extensive knowledge of the plant formations of Southeast Europe and the Mediterranean ice. In particular, his knowledge of the flora and vegetation of Dalmatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania was fundamental. Adamović coined the terms Šibljak and Pseudomacchie for the bushy formations of these karst countries of the Dinarides , which have found their way into specialist terminology in vegetation and geography .

From 1896 to 1910 he was editor of the exsiccate work "Plantae balcanicae exsiccatae". He contributed volume 11, “The vegetation conditions of the Balkan countries” (1909), to the work “The Vegetation of the Earth” edited by Adolf Engler and Carl Georg Oskar Drude .

Adamović's most important floristic work was the treatment of the flora of Montenegro (“Građa za floru kraljevine Crne Gore”), which was not taken into account in Josef Rohlena's “Conspectus Florae montenegrinae” as in August von Hayek's “Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Balcanicae”. Adamović had undertaken various journeys for this flora of Montenegro between 1905 and 1911 and several times on the Orjen , Komovi and Durmitor he collected around 1000 specimens of the flora of the southeast Dinarides. Adamović was only the second botanist in Montenegro, after Josif Pančić, to collect plants again on Velika Jastrebica in Bijela gora . After Adamović there has not been any further floristic-botanical research here.

Adamović's herbarium went partly to Vienna and Prague.

After the First World War he returned to Dubrovnik, where he died in 1935.

Fonts

  • The flora of Dalmatia . W. Klinkhardt, Leipzig 1911 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.9966
  • Građa za floru kraljevine Crne Gore (=  Rad Jugoslavenska Akademija Nauke i Umetnosti . Band 195 ). Zagreb 1913.
  • Guide through the nature of the northern Adriatic. With particular reference to Abbazia . Hartleben, Vienna / Leipzig 1915.
  • The flora of the Adriatic . 1929.
  • Italy . 1930.
  • The geographical position and structure of Italy . 1933.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pavle Cikovac: Sociology and site-dependent distribution of fir-rich forests in the Orjen Mountains (Montenegro). Thesis . University of Munich, Munich 2002.

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personal data
SURNAME Adamović, Lujo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Rovinj
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1935
Place of death Dubrovnik