Otto Pfundtner

Johann Otto Pfundtner (born November 13, 1844 in Abschruten, Insterburg district , † November 19, 1918 in Zehlendorf ), also Otto Johannes Pfundtner , was a teacher and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Otto Pfundtner attended the rural elementary school and the Friedrichsgymnasium in Gumbinnen . He studied classical philology at the University of Königsberg . In 1866 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on Pausanias and Herodotus . In 1867 he passed the state examination pro facultate docendi (teaching qualification). At first he was an assistant teacher at the Friedrichscollegium and at the Kneiphöfischen Gymnasium in Königsberg . At the last school he was employed as a senior teacher and in 1882 he was elected city school council and member of the magistrate in Königsberg. From 1885 he was in the same position in Breslau.

From 1907 to 1912 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the constituency of Breslau 7 ( City of Breslau-West ) and the Free People's Party .

Honors

Karl Gustav Limpricht named the real high alpine moss (Ptychodium pfundtneri) after him because of his contributions to the establishment of a botanical school garden in Wroclaw.

Fonts

Pausanias Periegeta imitator Herodoti . Krauseneck, Gumbinnen 1866.

Web links

Otto Pfundtner in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of Otto Pfundtner . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

↑ After 1945 the place was called Botanitschnoje in Russian and is now part of the city of Chernyachovsk (Insterburg) .
↑ according to Horst-Günter Benkmann : ways and work, p. 164
↑ Jan-Peter Frahm , Jens Eggers: Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen , Volume 2. Botanical Institute of the University of Bonn, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-8311-0986-9 , p. 375.

personal data
SURNAME	Pfundtner, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pfundtner, Johann Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German teachers and politicians (FVp), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	November 13, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH	Abschruten, Insterburg district
DATE OF DEATH	November 19, 1918
Place of death	Zehlendorf

[1] After 1945 the place was called Botanitschnoje in Russian and is now part of the city of Chernyachovsk (Insterburg) .

[2] rding to Horst-Günter Benkmann : ways and work, p. 164

[3] Jan-Peter Frahm , Jens Eggers: Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen , Volume 2. Botanical Institute of the University of Bonn, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-8311-0986-9 , p. 375.