Peter Prahl

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Peter Prahl's gravestone at the Burgtorfriedhof (2018)

Peter Prahl (born March 24, 1843 in Osterlügum , Duchy of Schleswig , † October 23, 1911 in Lübeck ) was a German medical officer and botanist. He dealt mainly with bryology (moss plants). His author's abbreviation for botanists and mycologists is " Prahl ".

Life

Peter Prahl came from a family of pastors from Schleswig. He was a son of Osterlügumers pastor Hans Peter Prahl (1808-1869). At the beginning of 1850 his father, now provost in Hadersleben , was dismissed and expelled from the state because of his participation in the Schleswig-Holstein uprising . Therefore the family moved to Wetzlar , where Peter Prahl attended the Royal High School. After graduating from high school, on October 21, 1863, he entered the medical-surgical Friedrich Wilhelm Institute for the training of military doctors in Berlin , which later became the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy . On 6 August 1867 he was charged with a dissertation on Perlgeschwülste the temporal bone to Dr. med. et chir. PhD. He then began his service as a junior doctor at the Charité in Berlin.

Medical officer

In the following year he became a military doctor with Kaiser Franz Garde Grenadier Regiment No. 2 . In 1869 he joined the Dragoon Regiment No. 6 as an assistant doctor . After his participation in the Franco-German War , he was transferred to the Schleswig-Holstein Dragoon Regiment No. 13 in Flensburg in 1871 . In 1873 he was promoted to first class assistant doctor. From 1876 he was medical officer in the infantry regiment "von Manstein" (Schleswigsches) No. 84 and from 1879 battalion doctor of the fusilier battalion in the infantry regiment "Duke of Holstein" (Holsteinisches) No. 85 . In 1888 he became chief medical officer in the fusilier regiment “Queen Victoria of Sweden” (Pomeranian) No. 34 and in 1890 in the hussar regiment “Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands” (Hanoverian) No. 15 in Wandsbek . His last post was from 1892 regimental doctor at the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Fusilier Regiment No. 90 in Rostock . Since 1893 first class medical officer, he was granted his departure in early 1900. He spent his retirement in Lübeck.

botanist

When the family was able to return to North Schleswig after the German-Danish War in 1864 , Peter Prahl began his botanical observations, which he continued in the following years during the university holidays. During his time as a military doctor in Hadersleben and Flensburg, he extended his observations over most of the Schleswig region, while he was only able to examine Holstein more thoroughly in later years. In 1876 he published a first overview of Schleswig's moss . His transfer to Kiel in 1879 enabled him to work through the Provincial Herbarium, which was run in the Botanical Institute of the Christian-Albrechts-University and which was built up primarily by Ernst Ferdinand Nolte . In 1886 he called on people to work on a comprehensive inventory of Schleswig-Holstein's flora . This was a plan that Nolte and Lars Hansen already had. His most important collaborators on this project were Rudolf von Fischer-Benzon and Ernst Krause . The first volume of the work Critical Flora of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein, the adjacent area of ​​the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg and Lübeck and the Principality of Lübeck appeared in 1888, a second in 1890. The first volume with school and excursion flora saw several editions. In 1907, Prahl was able to bring out the fourth edition himself; the fifth, proof of its practical utility , was published by Paul Junge in 1913.

marriage and family

Prahl married Nicoline Helene born in Hadersleben in 1872. Nissen (born June 16, 1850 in Tondern, † 1920 in Lübeck), a sister of the painter Anton Nissen . The son (Hans Bodo) Ernst Prahl (* 1876 in Hadersleben, † 1931 in Blankenburg (Harz) ) also became a medical officer. After attending the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy in Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1902, he went to China in 1906 as a naval medical officer. In 1914 he was senior staff doctor on the Imperial Yacht Hohenzollern .

Honors

Works

  • (Ed.): Critical flora of the province of Schleswig-Holstein, the area bordering the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg and Lübeck and the principality of Lübeck . With the participation of R. von Fischer-Benzon and EHL Krause.
Volume 1: Part 1: School and excursion flora. Kiel 1888 ( digitized version , Biodiversity Library)
Volume 2: Part 2: 1. History of the floristic exploration of the area; 2. Critical listing and discussion of the vascular plants observed in the area or identified from the same and their forms. Kiel 1890 ( digitized , HathiTrust )

literature

  • Eduard Alberti : Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1829 to mid-1866 . Volume 2, Dept. M – Z, Academic Bookstore, Kiel 1868 urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10730449-2 , p. 147
  • Paul von Wrochem: History of the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Fusilier Regiment No. 90 (1788–1906). ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1907, p. 383
  • Paul Ascherson : Peter Prahl. In: Negotiations of the Botanical Association Brandenburg 53 (1911), pp. 48–55
  • The Schleswig-Holstein florist Dr. Peter Prahl. In: The home. Monthly publication of the Association for the Care of Natural History and Regional Studies in Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Lübeck and the Principality of Lübeck 22 (1912), pp. 196–199
  • Prahl, Peter , in: Jan-Peter Frahm , Jens Eggers: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists. (= Limprichtia 6) Bonn 1995, 2nd edition Bonn 2001, ISBN 978-3-8311-0986-9 , p. 382

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For family history see Hans Bodo Ernst Prahl: Eine Nordschleswigsche Familiengeschichte. In: Writings of the Heimat-Kundlichen Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Nordschleswig 25 (1972), pp. 5-70; 1973, 28, pp. 5-69
  2. ^ Friedrich Volbehr : The Preachers of the Schleswig General Superintendentur from 1848-1865. In: Yearbooks for regional studies of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 8 (1866), pp. 301–396, here p. 307
  3. ↑ Master list of the Kaiser Wilhelms-Akademie for military medical education. Berlin: Springer 1910, p. 82 No. 233
  4. ↑ Dissertation. About the pearl growths with special consideration of their occurrence in the petrous bone . Lange, Berlin 1867.
  5. ^ German military medical journal 29 (1900), p. 10
  6. ↑ Flora of the province of Schleswig-Holstein, the area bordering the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg and Lübeck and the principality of Lübeck. 5th edition, Kiel: Universitäts-Buchhandlung 1913 ( digitized version ), HathiTrust , S. V
  7. ↑ There from 1898 active in the Corps Vandalia Berlin. According to Kösener corps lists 1960, 7 , 212
  8. ↑ Master list of the Kaiser Wilhelms-Akademie for military medical education. Berlin: Springer 1910, p. 471 No. 2097
personal data
SURNAME Brag, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical officer and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterlügum
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1911
Place of death Lübeck