Rudolf Mansfeld

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Rudolf Albert Otto Mansfeld (born January 17, 1901 in Weißensee , † November 30, 1960 in Gatersleben ) was a German botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Mansf. "

Life

Mansfeld was a PhD botanist and curator at the Botanical Garden and Museum in Berlin-Dahlem, where he succeeded Rudolf Schlechter . After the Second World War he was at the later Leibniz Institute for Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research in Gatersleben . In 1949 he succeeded Werner Rothmaler as head of department and was last head of the systematics and assortment department. He had the title of professor.

He is known for his directory of agricultural and horticultural crops (excluding ornamental plants) , which has also been translated into English. He published it with several other scientists from the institute and it contained around 1,800 species on 669 pages. It is known as the Mansfeld Directory (in English Mansfeld Encyclopaedia). He created genetic databases and dealt with the systematics of cultivated plants.

He was also a specialist in orchids and milkweed plants .

In 1960 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

The Rudolf Mansfeld Prize for Crop Plant Research has been awarded in Gatersleben since 1997.

Fonts

  • with others: Preliminary list of agriculturally and horticultural cultivated plant species (excluding ornamental plants) , Supplement 2 of Die Kulturpflanze , Gatersleben 1959
    • 2nd edition published by Jürgen Schultze-Motel in Akademie-Verlag and Springer Verlag 1986 in 4 volumes with 4800 types. The 3rd edition was published in 2001 by Springer Verlag in English, edited by Peter Hanelt. It had 3645 pages in 6 volumes and covered 6100 of around 7000 known cultivated plant species. It is also on the Internet as Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops.
  • with Rudolf Schlechter: Figure atlas on the orchid flora of the South American Cordilleras , Dahlem: Verlag des Repertoriums 1929
  • with Rudolf Schlechter: Figure Atlas for the Orchidaceae of German New Guinea , Dahlem, Verlag des Repertoriums 1929
  • List of ferns and flowering plants of the German Reich , Jena: G. Fischer 1940
  • The technique of scientific plant naming; Introduction to the International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature , Berlin: Akademie Verlag 1949

He also published the flower analysis of new orchids (4 volumes, Dahlem, Verlag des Repertoriums, 1930 to 1934) by Rudolf Schlechter.

literature

  • Klaus Müntz, Ulrich Wobus: The Gatersleben Institute and its history, Springer Spectrum 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register of StA Weißensee, Niederbarnim district, No. 71/1901
  2. ↑ Death register StA Gatersleben, Aschersleben district, No. 21/1960
  3. ↑ Member entry of Rudolf Mansfeld at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 18, 2016.
  4. ↑ Mansfeld Prize ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 31, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ipk-gatersleben.de
personal data
SURNAME Mansfeld, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mansf. (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Weissensee
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1960
Place of death Gatersleben