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Leberecht Moritz Fünfstück (born March 23, 1856 in Dittelsdorf , † February 18, 1925 in Stuttgart ) was a German botanist and university professor in Stuttgart. Its botanical author's abbreviation is " Fünfstück ".

Act

Fünfstück studied at the University of Leipzig , the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . He became a member of the Corps Plavia (1877), Guestphalia Würzburg (1878) and Rhenania Tübingen (1879). From 1885 he taught at the Technical University of Stuttgart . He turned to the study of symbioses at an early stage and was regarded as an outspoken lichen specialist , but later did not continue this work. He edited the general part of the Lichenes section in Engler and Prantl's book : Natural Plant Families , which appeared in 1887. In 1900, Fünfstück became head of botany at the University of Stuttgart . He was rector of the university three times, 1904/05, 1907/08 and 1908/09 . In 1903 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Fünfstück advised the literary director of the Stuttgart Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt Joseph Kürschner on biological issues and a. in his lexicographical efforts such as the new edition of Pierer's universal lexicon of the present and the past (7th edition 1888-1893), for which Rudolf Steiner was supposed to take over the natural philosophy articles, but did not deliver because of numerous obligations and other priorities.

After the death of his Stuttgart TH colleague Otto Lueger , who founded the Lexicon of All Technology at the same publisher in 1894 , and for the second edition of which, from 1904 to 1910, Fünfstück contributed the article "Bacteria", he wrote additional articles for the supplementary volume in 1914 and also took over the editorial work for the second supplementary volume in 1920.

He was one of the signatories of the declaration of the university teachers of the German Reich of October 23, 1914, in which they turned against the defamation of German "militarism".

Works

  • Contributions to the development history of the lichen , inaugural dissertation. Berlin: Borntraeger, 1884 (= special reprint from: Yearbook of the Royal Botanical Garden and the Botanical Museum in Berlin; Volume 3 (1884), pp. 155–174; Award publication crowned by the high philosophical faculty of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin)
  • Natural history of the plant kingdom. Large plant atlas with text for school and home . 40 deliveries. Stuttgart: Hänselmann 1886; 4th ed. Süddt. Publisher Inst. 1890; 8th ed. 1896
  • Botanical pocket atlas for tourists and plant lovers . Stuttgart: Nägele, 1894; 2., presumably u. verb. Ed. 1894
  • Pocket atlas of mountain and alpine plants. For tourists and plant lovers in Switzerland, the Bavarian Alps, Tyrol, Styria, Carinthia, Krain, Salzburg, in the Jura, Black Forest, Vosges, Giant Mountains, in Savoy, the Dauphiné, the Maritime Alps and the Pyrenees . Stuttgart: Ulmer, 1896

editor

  • Otto Lueger : Lexicon of technology . Supplementary volumes 1 (1914), 2 (1920) for the 2nd edition ( full texts )
  • Contributions to scientific botany . Stuttgart: Zimmer (Mohrmann), 1.1895 / 97 - 5.1903 / 06.2 ( digital copies , commons category )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corps lists 1910, 153/21; 205/28; 196/255
  2. ^ Helmut Zander: Anthroposophy in Germany. Theosophical worldview and social practice 1884–1945. Volume 1. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-55452-4 , p. 459. See also: Letters in Rudolf Steiner's estate ( Memento of July 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ See ideas from 1914 .
personal data
SURNAME Five pieces, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Dittelsdorf , Kingdom of Saxony
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1925
Place of death Stuttgart , People's State of Württemberg , Weimar Republic