Eduard Eidam

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Sterigmatocystis nidulans Eidam 1883

Michael Emil Eduard Eidam (born September 6, 1845 in Nuremberg ; † 1901 ) was a German botanist and mycologist . Its botanical author abbreviation is " Eidam ".

Life

Eduard Eidam was a son of the married couple Christian Conrad David and his wife Franziska Rosina Adele Eidam from Nuremberg. After attending grammar school in Nuremberg, he completed a pharmaceutical training. After passing the theoretical and practical exams and the three-and-a-half year so-called “Servirzeit”, he attended two semesters of pharmacy and natural sciences at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After passing the state examination as a pharmacist on August 3, 1869 , Eduard Eidam moved to Berlin , where he worked in various laboratories and studied another four semesters at the University of Berlin. With his inaugural treatise “About the current standpoint of mycology with regard to the teaching of infectious diseases” , which was prepared at the suggestion of the physician Moritz Lövinson, he was awarded a doctorate in Rostock on July 31, 1871. phil. PhD . On November 1, 1873, he became an assistant at the Plant Physiology Institute of the Royal University of Breslau founded by Ferdinand Julius Cohn in 1866, where Eduard Eidam wrote not only the description of the silk and moss capsule but also explanations of the mold , yeast and bacteria models as well as the rye grain and insectivorous plants made by Robert Brendel (1821–1898) as an aid for botanical lessons and among the world's most important scientific models.

Eduard Eidam is first to describe watering can mold Sterigmatocystis nidulans Eidam 1883. He described 1883 for the first time the sheath cell , a collection of loose hyphae that certain ascomycetes their (Ascomycota) fruiting cart (cleistothecia) and after him Eidamsche bubbles are called.

Eduard Eidam was awarded the title of professor in 1895. He last worked as director of the agricultural-botanical research station in Breslau and retired on July 1, 1901.

He had been a member of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture since 1875 and was accepted as a member ( matriculation number 2316 ) on July 19, 1881 in the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .

In his honor, Gustav Lindau named the genus Eidamia Lindau in 1904 from the hose fungus department (today it is a synonym for Harzia Constantin 1888).

Fonts

  • On the present standpoint of mycology with regard to the teaching of infectious diseases . Inaugural treatise, Hecht, Berlin 1871 ( digitized version )
  • The present standpoint of mycology with regard to the teaching of infectious diseases . Olives, Berlin 1871 ( digitized version )
  • The present standpoint of mycology with regard to the teaching of infectious diseases . Second edition, Olives, Berlin 1872 ( digitized )
  • To the knowledge of the development in the Ascomycetes . In: Contributions to the biology of plants, 3, 1883, pp. 377–433 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Anonymous: Nekrolog Professor Dr. phil. Eduard Eidam . In: Annual Report of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture , 79, Nekrologe, 1901, pp. 5-8 digitized
  • Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 215 ( archive.org ).

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Botanisches Zentralblatt, 1895, p. 32 ( PDF )
  2. ↑ Entry Eidamia at Index Fungorum
personal data
SURNAME Eidam, Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eidam, Michael Emil Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and mycologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH 1901