Peter Claussen

Peter Heinrich Claussen (born October 24, 1877 in Sahrensdorf on Fehmarn ; † December 31, 1959 in Marburg ) was a German botanist and mycologist with a chair at the University of Marburg . His botanical-mycological author's abbreviation is " Claussen ".

Life

Claussen received his doctorate in Berlin in 1901 and completed his habilitation in 1904 as an assistant in Freiburg / Br. for botany and in 1907 moved to Berlin to the Botanical Institute. In 1911 he continued his career at the Imperial Biological Institute for Agriculture and Forestry in Berlin, where he became a senior councilor in 1921. In September 1918 he moved briefly to the Dorpat University, which was reorganized by the German military administration in the Baltic States . In 1920/21 he was briefly professor at the Hann. Münden . In 1921 he was appointed to the University of Erlangen . From 1922 Claussen was director of the Botanical Institute and director of the Botanical Garden in Marburg. Claussen was president of the German Botanical Society for many years . In 1943 Claussen retired.

At times he was a member of the DNVP . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .

Fonts

• The natural plant families together with their genera and most important species, especially the useful plants 6th division: Eumycetes (Fungi). Class Basidiomycetes. , Berlin 1928
• On the effect of tar, especially tarred roads, on vegetation , Berlin 1913
• Plant physiological experiments and demonstrations for schools , Teubner Leipzig 1910

literature

• Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, Saur Verlag, p. 296
• Erich Donnert: The University of Dorpat-Jur'ev 1802-1918. A contribution to the history of higher education in the Baltic provinces of the Russian Empire . Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2007, pp. 199-208.

Web links

• A. Pirson: Peter Claussen 1877-1959 . Wiley online library
• Author entry at the IPNI