Otto Sendtner

Otto Sendtner (born June 27, 1813 in Munich , † April 21, 1859 in Erlangen in a mental hospital) was a Bavarian , German botanist and university professor. He is considered to be a co-founder of the zoenological direction in plant geography . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Sendtn. "

Life

Otto Sendtner was the son of the writer couple Jakob Sendtner and his wife Barbara "Betty" Sendtner , daughter of the publisher Peter Philipp Wolf and sister of the painter Louise Wolf . Theodor von Sendtner was one of his six siblings .

After graduating from high school in 1830, he studied natural sciences at the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich at the University of Munich . Karl Friedrich Schimper was an influential teacher . In 1837 he was employed as a private secretary by a landlord in Silesia and during this time he studied the cryptogam flora of the Sudetenland . From 1841 he was a curator at the ducal Leuchtenberg natural history cabinet in Eichstätt . In 1842 he managed the documented first ascent of Razor and Kanin . From 1843, Sendtner undertook botanical collecting trips through Istria and Tyrol in collaboration with Mutius von Tommasini, and in 1847 through Bosnia . In 1852 Sendtner managed the first documented ascent of the Mädelegabel in the Allgäu Alps on today's normal route .

From 1854 Sendtner was an associate professor, when Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli took office in 1857, who took over the management of the garden, a second chair was created, to which Sendtner was appointed. At the same time he also becomes the first conservator of the herbarium at the University of Munich.

Sendtner tried to clarify important basic biogeographical terms, B. the terms location , region and zone . He characterized the vegetation levels due to the vertical distribution of diagnostically important plant species. " The plants themselves join the ranks of the factors that make up the location and determine the shape of the vegetation, namely their bodies as living as well as dead. Their presence modifies the originally existing conditions. The shade and the products of decomposition intervene in the climate and humidity , Condition of the food and the soil "(Sendtner 1854, p. 439).

Otto Sendtner, together with Ferdinand Kummer, is the first to describe the colorful fescue Festuca bosniaca Kummer & Sendtner 1849.

Since 1835 he was a member of the Corps Bavaria Munich . His grave is in Munich on the Old South Cemetery .

Honors

According to Otto Sendtner, the moss genus Sendtnera is Endl. named.

Fonts (selection)

• with Ferdinand Kummer: Enumeratio plantarum in itinere Sendtneriana in Bosnia lectarum, cum definitionibus novarum specierum et adumbrationibus obscurarum varietatumque . In: Flora, XXXII, Regensburg 1849, pp. 1–10 (sectio prima) ( digitized version) and 753–766 (sectio secunda) ( digitized version )
• The vegetation conditions of southern Bavaria according to the principles of plant geography and with reference to the national culture (Munich 1854; 941 pp.)
• The vegetation conditions of the Bavarian Forest according to the principles of plant geography (Munich 1860; 505 p.)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adolf Roth: Siegmund v. Riezler's ancestors. ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: The family researcher in Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia. Volume I, Issue 20, December 1954, pp. 300-301.
2. ↑ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vols., Munich 1970-1976 .; Vol. 3, p. 287.
3. ^ Razor: Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering: SummitPost. In: summitpost.org. Retrieved April 8, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Visoki Kanin / Monte Canin: Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering: SummitPost. In: summitpost.org. Retrieved April 8, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Ernst Zettler, Heinz Groth: Alpine Club Guide - Allgäu Alps . 12th, completely revised edition. Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-7633-1111-4 (p. 204).
6. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 170 , 350.
7. ^ Sendtner, Otto. Dr. phil. Alter Südfriedhof Munich ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
8. ↑ 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 .

literature

• Ernst Wunschmann:  Sendtner, Otto . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 7 f.
• Jan-Peter Frahm:  Sendtner, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 250 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Author entry and list of the plant names described for Otto Sendtner at the IPNI