Otto Renner

Otto Johann Nepomuk Renner (born April 25, 1883 in Neu-Ulm , † July 8, 1960 in Munich ) was a German botanist and university professor. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Renner ".

Life

Renner studied natural sciences and especially botany from 1901 to 1906 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where Karl Ritter von Goebel and Ludwig Radlkofer were influential teachers. During his studies he became a member of the AGV Munich . From 1903 he was already assistant to Radlkofer in the Botanical State Collection in Munich. In 1906 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. From 1907 he was an intern with Wilhelm Pfeffer at the University of Leipzig, then curator at the cryptogam herbarium and assistant to Goebel.

In 1911 he became a private lecturer and in 1913 an associate professor for plant physiology and pharmacognosy at the University of Munich. In 1920 he was appointed full professor of botany at the University of Jena to succeed Ernst Stahl , where he was also director of the Botanical Institute and the Botanical Garden. From 1948 to 1953 he was a full professor of botany and director of the Botanical Institute and the Botanical Garden of the University of Munich. In 1929 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1933 to the Saxon Academy of Sciences , in 1934 he became a member and in 1958 an honorary member of the Leopoldina , in 1935 a corresponding member and in 1949 a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1947 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences , and in 1954 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences . In 1959 he received the Darwin badge .

Renner went on research trips to Algeria (1914) and Java (1930-1931). He undertook a wide range of genetic, cytogenetic and taxonomic investigations, especially on the genus Oenothera , which significantly improved the understanding of mutations. In 1934, Renner ascribed independent hereditary traits to the plastids .

From 1933 to 1943 he was editor of the journal Flora , from 1947 to 1956 of Planta ; from 1949 to 1955 he published advances in botany .

Honors

According to Renner, the genus Rennera is Merxm. named from the sunflower family (Asteraceae).

Fonts

(1906): Contributions to the anatomy and systematics of the Artocarpeen and Conocephaleen especially of the genus Ficus - Leipzig: Engelmann
(1934): The plant plastids as independent elements of the genetic constitution - Leipzig: Hirzel
(1929): Species bastards in plants - Berlin: Gebr. Bornträger
(1925): Investigations into the factorial constitution of some complex heterozygotic oenotheres - Leipzig: Gebr. Borntraeger
(1929): Handbuch der Vererbungswissenschaft / Vol. 2, A; Species bastards in plants
(1958): On the inheritance of the Cruciata trait of the Oenothera: 8. Connections of the Oenothera atrovirens, and review

literature

Ilse Jahn : history of biology. Theories, methods, institutions, short biographies . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 1985. (New edition: Nikol, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-937872-01-9 ).
Karl Mägdefrau : history of botany. Gustav Fischer Verlag , Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-437-20489-0 .
Ilse Jahn: Renner, Otto Johann Nepomuk. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 433 f. ( Digitized version ).
Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 331 .

Web links

Literature by and about Otto Renner in the catalog of the German National Library
Author entry and list of the described plant names for Otto Renner at the IPNI

Individual evidence

^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 100.
^ Members of the SAW: Otto Renner. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed on November 23, 2016 .
^ Member entry by Otto Renner at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 22, 2015.
↑ Prof. Dr. Otto Renner , member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 200.
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Renner, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Renner, Otto Johann Nepomuk (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German botanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 25, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	New Ulm
DATE OF DEATH	July 8, 1960
Place of death	Munich

[1] Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 100.

[2] Members of the SAW: Otto Renner. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed on November 23, 2016 .

[3] Member entry by Otto Renner at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 22, 2015.

[4] Prof. Dr. Otto Renner , member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences

[5] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 200.

[Burkhardt_2018-6] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .