Paul Christoph Hennings

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Paul Christoph Hennings

Paul Christoph Hennings (born November 27, 1841 in Heide , Duchy of Holstein , † October 14, 1908 in Berlin ) was a self-taught German botanist and mycologist . His botanical author's abbreviation is “ Henn. "

Live and act

Hennings attended high school in Meldorf, but was forced to leave it in the third grade in 1860 without a degree. Around 1861 he received an internship at the Botanical Garden in Kiel . Thanks to the support of the local director, Ernst Ferdinand Nolte , and the support of his friend Klaus Groth , he was able to enroll at Kiel University in the winter semester of 1863/1864 . Due to the German-Danish War , he was forced to interrupt his studies in 1864 and started working for the post office in Augustenburg and later in Hohenwestedt . In his free time, however, he occupied himself with the flora of his surroundings, went on numerous excursions with Nolte and began to set up his botanical collection. He was also a teacher at the agricultural school in Hohenwestedt.

Nolte's successor as director of the Kiel Botanical Garden, August Wilhelm Eichler , brought Hennings back to Kiel and enabled him to work as an assistant in the Botanical Garden. There Hennings dealt with the sorting of the Lucas Herbarium , added to his collection and published a flora of the Hohenwestedt area and one of the Kiel area. He also dealt with cryptogams and for the first time compiled a complete collection of the larger algae in Kiel Bay . When Eichler took over the chair of botany at the University of Berlin and the management of the Royal Botanical Garden , Hannings followed him in 1880. There he was responsible for the foam museum founded by Eichler and the development of the cryptogam herbarium.

From 1885 he dealt almost exclusively with mushrooms; initially with cap mushrooms , later also with smut fungi (Ustilaginales), rust fungi (Pucciniales) and parasitic sac fungi (Ascomycota). But he also published two papers on the algae of the Mark Brandenburg . He quickly developed a reputation for authority in the field of mushrooms and was able to make numerous discoveries for himself, not only in the north of Germany, but also increasingly dealt with tropical mushrooms through submissions from the German colonies, of which he described numerous new species . In 1890 he was appointed deputy curator in recognition of his scientific work , and in 1891 he was appointed curator of the Botanical Garden. By then he had already built up one of the world's most important collections of mushrooms in Berlin. In 1902 he was even appointed professor despite a lack of academic training. He published most of his approximately 250 publications in the magazine Hedwigia , of which he was co-editor from 1893 to 1905. He also wrote numerous humorous poems.

Hennings died on October 14, 1908 of a brief illness at the age of 66; a year after his son's untimely death.

Honors

The mushroom genera Henningsiella Rehm , Henningsymyces Kuntze and the plant genus Henningsocarpum Kuntze from the willow family (Salicaceae) were named after him .

Fonts

  • Fungi africani: 1. In: A. Engler (Hrsg.): Botanical yearbooks for systematics, plant history and plant geography. 1891, pp. 337-373.
  • Fungi africani: 2. In: A. Engler (Hrsg.): Botanical yearbooks for systematics, plant history and plant geography. 1893, pp. 1-42.
  • Fungi Warburgiani. In: Hedwigia. 32, 1893, pp. 216-227.
  • Fungi aethiopici. In: Hedwigia. 34, 1895, p. 328.
  • Contributions to the fungal flora of South America: 1. In: Hedwigia. 35, 1896, p. 207.
  • Fungi camerunenses: 2. (incl. Nonnullis aliis africanis). In: Engler's botanical yearbook. 23, 1897, pp. 537-558.
  • Contributions to the fungal flora of South America: 2 ". In: Hedwigia. 36, 1897, pp. 190–246.
  • Meaty mushrooms from Japan. In: Hedwigia. 39, 5, 1900, pp. 155-157.
  • Fungi Indiae orientalis: 2. In: Hedwigia. 40, 1901, pp. 323-342.
  • Fungi amazonici a. cl. Ernesto Ule collecti: 1. In: Hedwigia. 43, 1904, pp. 154-186.
  • Fungi fluminenses a. cl. E. Ule collecti. In: Hedwigia. 43, 1904, pp. 78-95.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Klaus Müller:  Hennings, Paul Christoph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 548 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ^ Author entry and list of the described plant names for Paul Christoph Hennings at the IPNI
  3. ^ A b G. Lindau: Paul Hennings † . In: Hedwigia. 48 (supp.) 1909, pp. 1-4. (online: jstor.org )
  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 Hennings, Paul Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and mycologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Heath (Holstein)
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1908
Place of death Berlin