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Rose Stoppel (born December 26, 1874 in Bündtken / East Prussia , † January 30, 1970 in Hamburg ) was the first female professor of botany in Germany . Your official botanical author abbreviation is " Stoppel ".
Life
Stoppel grew up in the countryside in East Prussia. Not least because her father died early, an academic career seemed completely utopian for her. She worked as a housemaid for twelve years. Her path towards marriage and family seemed mapped out, but she dreamed of becoming a researcher and pushed the plan through piece by piece. She did a horticultural apprenticeship and gained experience as a botanical draftsman in Berlin . In 1904, at the age of 29, supported by her mother, she was able to do her Abitur externally . She then studied biology in Berlin , Strasbourg and Freiburg im Breisgau . As a student, she was the first to recognize that plants seem to make sleep movements at night. She received her doctorate on this subject in 1910 in Freiburg with Hans Kniep . After that she worked as an underpaid assistant. In contrast to her male colleagues, she only received 30 instead of 100 marks per month.
When the University of Hamburg was founded in 1919 , Rose Stoppel was the first woman to receive a teaching position there . In 1924 she qualified as a professor and in 1929 became the first woman in Germany to be professor of botany, albeit without official status. In November 1933 she signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler .
When, at the end of the 1930s, with the help of the Emergency Association of German Science, she was able to go on an expedition to Iceland with three employees, she was again the first woman to manage such a company. The very different conditions in Iceland prompted further investigations into the daily rhythm of humans.
At the beginning of the Second World War, at the end of 1939, she worked as a temporary math teacher for several months at the Stormarn School in Ahrensburg . In 1944, at the age of 70, she retired.
Shortly after her 95th birthday, she died in a Hamburg monastery.
Works
- On the influence of light on the opening and closing of some flowers , dissertation, University of Freiburg 1910
- Contribution to the problem of the perception of light and heavy stimulus by the plant , habilitation thesis, University of Hamburg 1924
- Plant physiological studies , Jena 1926
literature
- Bernd and Helga Reher: Rose Stoppel - stations in the life of a woman studying at the beginning of the 20th century . 38 pages. Historical sheets No. 20. Ahrensburg 2007 (with detailed catalog raisonné)
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Rose Stoppel at the IPNI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stubble, rose |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German university professor, first female professor of botany in Germany |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bündtken , East Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1970 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |