Nicolaas Wilhelm Pieter Rauwenhoff

NWP Rauwenhoff

Nicolaas Wilhelm Pieter Rauwenhoff (born July 6, 1826 in Amsterdam , † December 17, 1909 in Utrecht ) was a Dutch biologist .

Life

The first son of the merchant Jan Hendrik Rauwenhoff (born June 11, 1799 in Amsterdam; † September 11, 1833 there) and the painter Anna van Heurn (born June 21, 1798 in 's-Hertogenbosch; † September 7, 1875 in Tongeren) , lost his father very young. His mother therefore moved to Haarlem, where he spent most of his youth and attended the schools there with his brother Lodewijk Willem Ernst Rauwenhoff . He continued this training in 1845 at the Athenaeum Illustre Amsterdam , where Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel became his formative teacher. After he had completed his university entrance exam in Amsterdam on December 13, 1845 , he enrolled at the University of Utrecht on June 4, 1846 . Supported primarily by Gerardus Johannes Mulder and Pieter Harting , Rauwenhoff received his doctorate in philosophy on June 21, 1853 in Utrecht with a thesis on photosynthesis De viridium plantarum partium cum aëris oxygenio et acido carbonico necessitudine . This work was published under the Dutch title Onderzoek naar de betrekking der groene plantendeelen tot de zuurstof en het koolzuur des dampkrings onder invloed van het zonnelicht (freely translated into German: Studies on the relationship between green parts of plants and the oxygen and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, under the Influence of sunlight ).

After a short activity in Brummen , he became a scientific food inspector in Utrecht in 1854. In 1859 he succeeded Miquel at the Athenaeum Illustre in Amsterdam and on February 7, 1860 lecturer for botany at the clinical school in Rotterdam . On February 13, 1871, he was appointed professor of botany at the University of Utrecht, which task he divorced on April 21, 1871 with a speech about the development of the direction and importance of plant physiology at that time toegelicht started . In his capacity as a Utrecht university lecturer, he also took part in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1884/85 . After he had worked as a professor for twenty-five years, he held his farewell speech on June 17, 1896 with a lecture on the development of botany in the last 50 years and was retired from his professorship on September 15 of the same year, with a pension of 3,000 gulden.

In 1863 Rauwenhoff became a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences , was a member of the Dutch Society of Sciences in Haarlem, was honorary chairman of the Dutch Society for Horticulture and Botany, in 1858 he became a member of the provincial Utrecht Society of Arts and Sciences and on September 10, 1872 an honorary member the Linné Society in Brussels. In addition, he received the Belgian Leopold Cross on May 1, 1863, on June 2, 1864 he was knight of the Leopold Order of Belgium , on June 8, 1869 he received the Russian Order of Saint Stanislaus 3rd Class, in 1874 Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy and on April 24, 1877 he became a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion . Rauwenhoff married on July 18, 1872 in Arnhem with Anna Paulina Koopmans (born January 29, 1832 in Maastricht, † November 4, 1890 in Godesberg am Rhein in Prussia, born November 11, 1890 in Tongeren), the daughter of Dirk Koopmans and Johanna Broes. The marriage remained childless. After his death, his body was transferred to the family grave in Tongeren, between Epe and Oldebroek, and buried.

Works

• Onderzoek naar de betrekking der great plantendeelen tot de zuurstof en het koolzuur des dampkrings, or den invloed van het zonnelicht. Amsterdam 1853.
• Paperwork. Amsterdam 1854 ( online ).
• De bewaring the levensmiddelen. Scheikundig onderzoek naar de oorzaken en voorwaarden van ontleding en naar de middelen tot bewaring van de stoffen, which have been used as voedsel. Rotterdam 1857 ( online ).
• The sheikundige verschijnselen bij de kieming der planten-zaden. Rotterdam 1858 ( online , with Anthonie Kornelis Oudemans jr.).
• De natuurkundige baselines van den landbouw. Utrecht 1856.
• Inwijdings-speech over het nut der wetenschap, zijgtbaar in the Werkkring der Plantkunde. Rotterdam 1860 ( online ).
• Bijdrage tot de kennis van Dracaena draco L. Amsterdam 1863 ( online ).
• Over het bevriezen the plans. Amsterdam 1863.
• Daniel Hooibrenk en zijne ontdekkingen. 1864.
• Catechism of the plant customer. Rotterdam 1865 (with H. Kloete Nortier).
• Observations sur l'accroissement de la Tige des Végétaux = Waarnemingen over the Groei van den Plantenstengel bij day and night. Amsterdam 1867.
• De Bosschen. Leiden 1870.
• Observations on the caractères et la formation du liège dans les Dicotylédones. In: Archives Néerlandaises. Haarlem 1870.
• De tegenwoordige Richting en beteekenis the plan-physiology uit hare geschiedenis toegelicht. Utrecht 1871.
• Carolus Linnaeus. 1875.
• Het samenwonen en samenleven in de organic wereld. 1876.
• Deherdenking van den sterfdag van Carolus Linnaeus. Amsterdam 1878.
• Sur les premiers phenomènes de la germination des spores des cryptogames. In: Archives Néerlandaises. Haarlem 1879, vol. 16.
• Charles Robert Darwin. Utrecht 1882.
• About the concept of leven. Utrecht 1885.
• Onderzoekingen over Sphaeroplea annulina Ag. Amsterdam 1887.
• De geslachtsgeneratie of the sameiaceën. Amsterdam 1889 (also French: La Génération Sexuée Des Gleicheniacées. 1890).

literature

• Koninklijke Academie van Wetenschappen. In: Algemeen Handelsblad. 24-12-1909, 2nd sheet, p. 7.

Web links

• Rauwenhoff in the Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae
• Rauwenhoff at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW)