Martin Möbius (botanist)

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Martin Möbius (between 1883 and 1893)

Martin August Johannes Möbius (born December 7, 1859 in Leipzig , † January 25, 1946 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German botanist .

Live and act

Martin Möbius is the son of the pedagogue Paul Möbius and the grandson of the mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius ; the physician Paul Julius Möbius was his older brother.

Martin Möbius was from 1891 to 1893 associate professor for botany at the University of Heidelberg . In 1893 he became a lecturer in botany and director of the Dr. Senckenberg Foundation . From 1914 to 1928 he was the first director of the Botanical Institute of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and also director of the Botanical Garden in Frankfurt am Main .

Martin Möbius also commented on socio-political issues. In 1914 he was one of the signatories of the declaration of university teachers of the German Empire . In 1935 he wrote a letter to the mayor of Frankfurt am Main Friedrich Krebs (NSDAP) to draw his attention to an anti-Semitic poster for which the people of Frankfurt would be ashamed in front of strangers visiting the city .

Fonts

Author:

  • Microscopic internship for systematic botany. 2 parts. Borntraeger, Berlin.
    • Part 1: Angiosperms. 1912.
    • Part 2: Kryptogamae and Gymnospermae. 1915.
  • Botanical-microscopic internship for beginners. Borntraeger, Berlin 1919.
  • The dyes of the plants. Borntraeger brothers, Berlin 1927.
  • History of botany. Fischer, Jena 1937. 2nd edition: Fischer, Stuttgart 1968.
  • The vegetative reproduction of plants. Fischer, Jena 1940.

Editor, editor:

  • (Ed.): Rudolf Jakob Camerarius : About the sex of plants. Engelmann, Leipzig 1899.
  • (Ed.): Marcello Malpighi : The anatomy of plants. Engelmann, Leipzig 1901. Reprint: German, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-8171-3120-8 .
  • (Editing of the 4th edition): Eugenius Warming : Handbook of systematic botany. Borntraeger brothers, Berlin 1929
  • Paul Wolff : Forms of Life. Botanical photography studies. Preliminary remarks and notes from Martin Möbius. Langewiesche, Königstein 1931. Reprints 1940, 1943 and 1957.

Web links

Commons : Martin Möbius  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ M. Berbig:  Möbius, Paul . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 429 f.
  2. ↑ Entry on the website of Heidelberg University
  3. ^ Matthias C. Angermeyer, Holger Steinberg (Ed.): 200 years of psychiatry at the University of Leipzig: people and concepts. Springer, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-540-25075-1 , pp. 158–159 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ^ History, organization and perspectives of biology at the University of Frankfurt on the website of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main
  5. ↑ Declaration by the university professors of the German Reich (PDF; 2.4 MB)
  6. ↑ Claudia Michels: 1427 people who opposed the Nazis. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . July 17, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Möbius, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Möbius, Martin August Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1946
Place of death Frankfurt am Main