Paul Falkenberg

This article deals with the German botanist. For the German-American editor Paul Victor Falkenberg see Paul Falkenberg (Filmeditor) .

Paul Falkenberg (born September 2, 1848 in Berlin , † November 1, 1925 in Rostock ) was a German botanist and university professor. His author's abbreviation for botanists and mycologists is “ Falkenb. "

Life

Naples Zoological Station

As the son of a Kassel city councilor, Falkenberg studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . In 1876 he became a member of the Corps Hildesia IV . In 1875 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . Habilitated in botany in 1876 , he was a private lecturer for eight years . In 1884 he became an associate professor in Göttingen . From 1877 to 1879 he was an assistant at the Naples Zoological Station . In 1887 he followed the call of the University of Rostock to her chair for botany. At the same time he became director of the Rostock Botanical Garden . Falkenberg stayed in this post for 36 years. In 1923, he was 75 years emeritus . In addition to botany, he was also interested in Rostock university history. His manuscript, created around 1900, The Professors of the University of Rostock from 1600 to 1900 is an important source of the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium .

Honors

In 1888 he was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . The genera Falkenbergia F.Schmitz and Falkenbergiella Kylin der Algae were named in his honor.

family

He married Sophie von Kritter (* 1862), a daughter of Lieutenant General Adolf von Kritter, in Göttingen on March 16, 1886 .

Fonts

• Comparative studies on the structure of the monocotyledons' vegetation organs . Stuttgart 1876.
• with Friedrich Schmitz : Rhodomelaceae , in: Adolf Engler and Carl Prantl : The natural plant families , Vol. I.2 (1897).
• The Rhodomelaceans of the Gulf of Naples . 1901.

See also

• List of Corps students in the Leopoldina
• List of corps student rectors

literature

• Reports of the German Botanical Society. 44: 88-94 (1927). (With list of publications and portrait.)
• Scientific journal of the University of Rostock. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe 17 (1968), p. 269.
• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 2665 .

Web links

• Literature about Paul Falkenberg in the state bibliography MV
• Entry on Paul Falkenberg in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
• Paul Falkenberg
• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Paul Falkenberg at the IPNI

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 76/201
2. ^ Dissertation: Contributions to the anatomy of the moncotyledonous vegetation organs
3. ↑ Habilitation thesis: About the secondary growth in thickness of Mesembryanthemum
4. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names. Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin, Berlin 2018. [1]
5. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1907. First year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1906, p. 437 f.
6. ↑ Robert Zander : Zander hand dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 , pp. 670 .