Oscar Drude

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Carl Georg Oscar Drude (born June 5, 1852 in Braunschweig , † February 1, 1933 in Dresden ) was a German botanist , university professor and co-founder of plant ecology as a scientific discipline. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Drude ".

Life

Oscar Drude's grave in the Johannisfriedhof in Dresden

The doctor's son, who came from an old Braunschweig family, studied natural sciences and chemistry at the Collegium Carolinum in his hometown from 1870 and moved to the University of Göttingen in 1871 . There Drude became an assistant to August Grisebach . He held this office until 1879.

In 1874, Drude finished his studies with a doctorate as “Dr. phil. ". Then he got a job as a herbarium assistant to Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling . There in Göttingen he also worked as a private lecturer in botany. In 1876 Drude completed his habilitation in botany. In 1879 he accepted a position at the Polytechnic in Dresden , where he held a chair for botany. On December 19, 1879 ( registration number 2234 ) he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . When the Polytechnic received the status of a technical university in 1890, Drude had great influence in the redesign of the natural science, especially the botanical, chairs. In the same year the Botanical Garden in Dresden got Drude, a competent and committed director. Together with Bruno Steglich, Drude added an agricultural experimental station for plant culture to the garden. In 1895 he was accepted as an extraordinary member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences . Since 1907 he was a full member of this academy.

With his work The Ecology of Plants , he became one of the co-founders of this department.

Oscar Drude died in Dresden in 1933. His grave is in the local Johannisfriedhof .

Honors

Drude building of the TU Dresden

The genus Drudeophytum Coult was named in his honor . & Rose of the umbelliferous plant family (Apiaceae). The magazine Drudea , which appeared from 1961 to 1964, is also named after him.

In 1899 he was appointed Privy Councilor .

In 1953, the TU Dresden named the building of the Botanical Institute " Drude-Bau ".

Fonts

Quotes from Drude's work

  • " Every closed plant stand has as its character types those which act on the carpet of the plant cover in their sociability in the first place and in which the others are interspersed as admixed minor species" (Die Ökologie der Pflanzen, 1913, p. 215).
  • " The physiographic ecology has the task of establishing the associations, to delimit them from one another, and to bring the particular conditions of climate and soil, which ban each one in their place or dynamically (progressive or regressive), to the knowledge " (Die Ökologie der Pflanzen, 1913, p. 218).

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Oscar Drude  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Oscar Drude at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on August 14, 2017.
  2. ^ Members of the SAW: Oskar Drude. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed on October 15, 2016 .
  3. ^ TU Dresden. ( Memento of April 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved October 13, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Drude, Oscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drude, Carl Georg Oscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1933
Place of death Dresden