Otto Penzig

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Albert Julius Otto Penzig , also Albertus Giulio Ottone Penzig , (born March 25, 1856 in Samitz , today Zamienice , district of Chojnów ; † March 6, 1929 in Genoa ) was a German botanist and lexicographer. His botanical author abbreviation is “ Penz. "

life and work

Otto Penzig studied in Breslau and Karlsruhe. For health reasons he went to the French and Italian Riviera, stayed in Italy after his healing and did research at the universities of Pavia and Padua (mainly in mycology ). In 1882 he obtained Italian citizenship, completed his habilitation and, from 1886, held the professorship for botany at the University of Genoa for a lifetime , but spent the war years on his wife's estates in Breno , Valcamonica .

Penzig was the editor of the Malpighia magazine for decades . Rassegna mensuale di botanica . He worked with his friend Thomas Hanbury and undertook research trips to Abyssinia , Indonesia and Ceylon. He became a member of the Leopoldina on January 2, 1894 .

From 1905 to 1918 Penzig was Secretary General of the Italian Theosophical Society .

Romani table is important Penzigs comprehensive dictionary of the Italian vernacular plant names under the title Flora Popolare Italiana (counterpart to dictionaries of Eugène Rolland for the French and Henry Marzell for German).

Fonts (selection)

  • Plant Teratology Systematically Organized , 2 Vols., Genoa 1890–1894 First Volume Archive.org , Second Volume Archive.org ; 3 vol., Berlin 1921–1922
  • Flora popolare italiana. Raccolta dei nomi dialettali delle principali piante indigine e coltivati ​​in Italia. 2 volumes. Genoa 1924 (541 and 615 pages, vol. 1: scientific-vernacular; vol. 2: vernacular-scientific); Reprints Bologna 1972 and 1974 (= Opera botanica. A.5–6).

literature

  • A. Béguinot, "Otto Penzig", in: Reports of the German Botanical Society 47, 12, May 1929, pp. 96-102
  • Lothar Voetz , 133. Dictionaries of animal and plant names , in: Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Second part of volume , ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta, Berlin. New York 1990, pp. 1254-1258

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Otto Penzig at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 19, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Penzig, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Penzig, Ottone; Penzig, Otto Albert Julius; Penzig, Albert Julius Otto; Penzig, Albertus Giulio Ottone; Penz. (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian botanist and lexicographer of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Samitz , today Zamienice , district of Chojnów
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1929
Place of death Genoa