Nathanael Pringsheim

Nathanael Pringsheim (around 1890)

Nathanael Pringsheim (born November 30, 1823 in Landsberg OS , district of Rosenberg , province of Silesia , † October 6, 1894 in Berlin ) was a Silesian-Prussian, German botanist and privy councilor . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Pringsh. ".

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Nathanael Pringsheim came from the German-Jewish Pringsheim merchant family from Silesia . He married in 1851. His wife died in 1893. His daughter Margarethe married the chemist Albert Ladenburg from Mannheim .

His specialty was algae research . In 1851 he was a private lecturer at the University of Berlin , in 1864 he was professor of botany at the University of Jena and director of the Botanical Garden . In 1868 he moved back to the University of Berlin as a professor of botany.

On March 29, 1860 he was made a full member of the Academy of Sciences Berlin-Brandenburg with confirmation on May 9. On June 30, 1864 he became an honorary member. In 1869 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences . He was also one of the founding members of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory . From 1879 he was also a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Mazevah Pringsheims in the Jewish cemetery Schönhauser Allee , Berlin, field E, on the path that begins about opposite the gate to the Judengang

In 1882 he founded the German Botanical Society (DBG) in Berlin and was editor of the yearbooks for scientific botany . The Nathanael Pringsheim Society for the Promotion of the Biological Institute Helgoland eV in Hamburg was named after him. Also in 1882 he received the Cothenius Medal of the Leopoldina . In 1893 he received the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art and in the same year became an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg .

literature

• Ekkehard Höxtermann:  Pringsheim, Nathanael. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 722 f. ( Digitized version ).
• G. Wunschmann:  Pringsheim, Nathanael . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, pp. 120-124.

Web links

Commons : Nathanael Pringsheim  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Yearbooks of Scientific Botany  - Sources and Full Texts

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Nathanael Pringsheim at the IPNI
• Short biography and bibliography (PDF file; 46 kB)
• Literature by and about Nathanael Pringsheim in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter P. Académie des sciences, accessed on February 7, 2020 (French). 
2. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: Pringsheim, Nathanael or Nathan. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed February 7, 2020 (Russian).