Oskar von Kirchner

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Emil Otto Oskar von Kirchner (born September 15, 1851 in Breslau , † April 25, 1925 in Venice ) was a Silesian-Prussian , German botanist and phytomedicist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Kirchn. "

Live and act

Kirchner, the son of a law firm, attended the Maria Magdalenen grammar school in his hometown from 1861 until he graduated from high school in 1869 . He then studied botany at the University of Breslau and received his doctorate there in 1874 with a thesis on the botanical writings of the Greek philosopher and naturalist Theophrast (Theophrastus of Eresos). He then worked at the Pomological Institute of the Agricultural Academy Proskau . In 1877 he went to Hohenheim and became an assistant at the semen testing institute opened in 1878. From 1881 to 1917 he was a full professor of botany at the Hohenheim Agricultural Academy .

In 1884 he was accepted into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

In addition to his varied botanical studies, especially in the field of flower biology , Kirchner devoted himself particularly intensively to the diseases of cultivated plants . Of his numerous writings on this subject and on the practice of plant protection in agriculture, his book The diseases and damage of our agricultural crops , the first edition of which appeared in 1890, should be emphasized. From 1916 until his death Kirchner published the magazine for plant diseases and galling .

Honors

In 1917 he became an honorary member of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg . The Hohenheim Agricultural University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1922.

The algae species Kirchneria Hindák , Kirchneriella Schmidle and Kirchneriellopsis Kuff are named after Kirchner . , Kirchneriellosaccus A.K. Islam and Pseudokirchneriella Hindák .

Major works

  • Flora from Stuttgart and the surrounding area (Ludwigsburg, Waiblingen, Esslingen, Nürtingen, Leonberg, part of the Schönbuch etc.) with special consideration of the plant biological conditions . Eugen Ulmer publisher , Stuttgart 1888
  • The diseases and damage to our agricultural crops. Instructions for their detection and control for farmers, gardeners et al. Verlag Eugen Ulmer , Stuttgart 1890; 2nd edition 1906; 3rd edition 1923. - 4th edition in several volumes, published under the title Diseases and Damage to Our Cultivated and Useful Plants by B. Rademacher, ibid. 1962.
  • Atlas of the diseases and damage to our agricultural crops (with H. Boltshauser). Tables with explanatory text, 6 series, Verlag Eugen Ulmer , Stuttgart, 1896–1902; of some series after 1918 reprints.
  • The vegetation of Lake Constance (together with Carl Schroeter). 2 volumes, 1896, 1902.
  • Excursion flora for Württemberg and Hohenzollern (together with Julius Eichler). 1st edition, Verlag Eugen Ulmer , Stuttgart 1900; 2nd edition 1913.
  • The fruit tree enemies, their detection and control . Eugen Ulmer publishing house , Stuttgart 1903; 2nd edition 1906; 3rd edition 1912; 4th edition 1921.
  • The enemies of grain, their detection and control . Eugen Ulmer publishing house , Stuttgart 1903; 2nd edition 1916.
  • Flowers and insects . Publisher BG Teubner, Leipzig 1911.
  • The development of the Kgl. agricultural institute Hohenheim. Ceremony to celebrate the centennial of the institute written on behalf of the teachers' convention of the agricultural college . Eugen Ulmer publishing house , Stuttgart 1918.
  • Plant protection , 7th, completely redesigned. Ed., German Agricultural Society, Berlin 1924
  • Editor (1904–1925) together with E. Loew and C. Schroeter: Life history of the flowering plants of Central Europe . 64 deliveries, 1904–1942.

See also

literature

  • Frans A. Stafleu , Richard S. Cowan: Taxonomic literature . Volume 2, H-Le. Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema, Utrecht 1979, pages 548-549. ISBN 90 313 0343 7
  • Johannes Behrens : Oskar Kirchner . In: Reports of the German Botanical Society, vol. 43, 1925, general assembly booklet, pp. 47–59 (with picture and list of publications).
  • Carl von Tubeuf : Professor von Kirchner †. Obituary . In: Journal of Plant Diseases and Gallology. Vol. 35, 1925, pp. 193–205 (with picture and list of publications).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hohenheim's directors, rectors and presidents ( memento of the original from March 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / uniarchiv.uni-hohenheim.de
  2. ^ Member entry of Emil Otto Oskar Kirchner at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 22, 2015.
  3. ^ Honorary members of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg
  4. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]


personal data
SURNAME Kirchner, Oskar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirchner, Emil Otto Oskar von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and phytomedicine
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1925
Place of death Venice