Robert Louis August Maximilian Gürke

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Robert Louis August Maximilian Gürke (born November 17, 1854 in Beuthen , † March 16, 1911 in Berlin ) was a German botanist and cactus specialist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Gürke ".

Life

He attended a secondary school 1st order in Görlitz and graduated from it on September 1, 1875. He then studied natural sciences in Berlin. In the further course he worked as a teacher at a preparatory institute for ensigns in Görlitz and in 1886 he joined the college of the Botanical Museum in Berlin as a scientific assistant . In 1892 he received his doctorate in Göttingen as a doctor philosophiae with a thesis on the Malvaceae . Thereupon he was appointed assistant custodian on July 9, 1892 and already on January 4, 1893, custodian of the Berlin Museum. In recognition of his services, he was awarded the title of Professor on April 15, 1904 and, after the museum moved to Dahlem, the Red Eagle Order, IV class. On April 4, 1906 he was admitted to the Leopoldina .

From 1905 to 1910 he was the first chairman of the German Cactus Society .

Publications

After Karl Moritz Schumann's death he published Blooming Cacti and edited the part on Malvaceae (1892) for the Flora Brasiliensis by Martius . For the The natural plant families (1887-1915) of Adolf Engler and Carl Prantl , he wrote the parts on the Hydrocharitaceae (together with PFA Ascherson , 1889), on the Melianthaceae (1895), on the Ebenaceae and Styracaceae (1891) and on the Boraginaceae (1893).

Honors

Karl Schumann named the plant genus Guerkea from the family of the dog poison plants (Apocynaceae) after Gürke .

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  • Walter Erhardt , Erich Götz, Nils Bödeker, Siegmund Seybold: The great ZANDER. Volume 2: Types and Varieties . Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7 .
  • Valentin Scholz: Chronicle of the German Cactus Society eV Stützel, Zell near Würzburg 1999 ( special issue of the German Cactus Society ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leopoldina . Volume 42, 1906, p. 58, online .
  2. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

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personal data
SURNAME Gürke, Robert Louis August Maximilian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gürke, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and cactus specialist
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Bytom
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1911
Place of death Berlin