Rudolf Marloth
Hermann Wilhelm Rudolf Marloth (born December 28, 1855 in Lübben ; † May 15, 1931 in Caledon , South Africa ) was a German-South African botanist , pharmacist and chemist . He gained fame through research into the Cape flora . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Marloth ".
Life
Rudolf Marloth learned the profession of pharmacist in Lübben (Spreewald) . From 1873 to 1876 he studied pharmacy at the University of Berlin . In 1883 he received his doctorate from the University of Rostock with the study of mechanical means of protecting seeds against harmful external influences . Then he practiced the profession of pharmacist in various places in Germany and Switzerland.
On December 30, 1883, he came to Cape Town , where he had been invited by his school friend, who was now living there. In 1883 he worked as a pharmacist for the company Wentzel and Schleswig. He was enthusiastic about Cape Town and Table Mountain , immediately started a collection of plants and soon traveled to more distant places such as Klein Winterhoek, Du Toits Peak, Bainskloof and Sneeukop. During this time he ran his own business in Cape Town. In Kimberley he was the deputy pharmacist there.
In 1885 and 1886 he went on collective expeditions to Kuruman in what is now the Northern Cape Province and to German Southwest Africa , where he visited Aus , Lüderitz Bay , Walvis Bay , Usakos , Ubib, Karibib , Otjimbingwe and Okahandja . Many of his preparations were described under the title Plantae Marlothiana by Adolf Engler in Berlin.
In 1888 he was employed by the chemistry faculty at Victoria College , where he was a professor from 1889 to 1892. He then taught at the Elsenburg Agricultural School and was a consulting chemist in Cape Town. In 1891 he married Marian van Wyk from Clanwilliam .
Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper was a participant in the deep-sea expedition led by Carl Chun , which traveled the Atlantic and Indian Oceans with the steamer Valdivia from 1898 to 1899 . In the train of this expedition he undertook collective expeditions with Marloth on the passes of the Montagu and the Swartberg as well as to Knysna . Schimper fell ill with malaria in Dar es Salaam and died in 1901 without having written the geobotany of the Cape Peninsula for the report of the deep-sea expedition. Marloth was asked to write a review on the plant geography of the Cape. For this task Marloth undertook trips to the Cederberg , Gifberg, Koue Bokkeveld, the Swartruggens region and to Southern Rhodesia . In the report, von Schimper then published the chapters Area of Hardwood Trees and The Knysna Forest .
On a visit to South Africa, Florence Phillips commissioned Rudolf Marloth with the creation of his Flora of South Africa , a work in four volumes that was published from 1913 to 1932 and is richly illustrated (180 color and 96 black and white plates and 458 illustrations in the text ).
The three plant genera Marlothia (today Helinus ), Marlothiella and Marlothistella , dozens of plant species (including Aloe marlothii ) as well as the Marloth Nature Reserve and Marloth Park were named after Marloth .
Works
- Henry Edmonds and Rudolf Marloth: Elementary botany for South Africa. Theoretical and practical. Longmans, Green & Co., London, New York and Bombay 1897 ( digitized version )
- Rudolf Marloth: The cape country, in particular the kingdom of the cape flora, the forest area and the Karroo, represented plant-geographically. Fischer, Jena 1908 ( digitized version )
- Rudolf Marloth: The Flora of South Africa. Volume 1, Darter Bros. & Co., Cape Town and William Wesley & Son, London 1913; Volume 2, 1925; Volume 3, 1932; Volume 4, 1915 ( digitized version of Volume 1 )
- Rudolf Marloth: Dictionary of the Common Names of Plants. Specialty Press of South Africa, Cape Town 1917 ( digitized version )
- Rudolf Marloth: Cape Flowers at Home. 2 parts, Darter Bros. & Co., Cape Town 1929 ( digitized part 1 , part 2 )
literature
- Reports of the German Botanical Society. Volume 43, German Botanical Society, Berlin-Dahlem 1925, pp. 457-459
- JH: Dr. Rudolf Marloth. In: Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information. (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), 1931, pp. 427-428, JSTOR 4102533
- AWH: Dr. Rudolf Marloth. In: Nature . Volume 127, No. 3216, June 20, 1931, p. 945, doi: 10.1038 / 127945a0
- RHC: Obituary. Rudolf Marloth. In: Journal of the Botanical Society of South Africa. Volume 17, 1931, p. 18 ( digitized version )
- Rudolf Marloth: The Flora of South Africa. Volume 3, 1, 1931, pp. Vii – xi and xii (with picture)
- H. Harms: Rudolf Marloth. In: Reports of the German Botanical Society. Volume 51, 1933, pp. (220) - (230) (with picture)
- Wolfgang-Hagen Klein and Holm-Dietmar Schwarz: German pharmacist biography. Supplementary volume (= publications of the International Society for the History of Pharmacy, Volume 55). Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Stuttgart 1986, pp. 302–303
- Volker Kummer: Rudolf Marloth (1855–1931) from Lübben as a botanist in South Africa - a sketch of his life. In: Lübbener Heimatkalender 2007. Heimat-Verlag, Lübben 2006, pp. 54–70 (with picture)
- Hanswilhelm Haefs : Place names and local stories from the Spreewald. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7357-3556-0 , pp. 43-44 ( digitized version )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ A. Engler: Plantae Marlothianae. A contribution to the knowledge of the flora of South Africa. In: Botanical yearbooks for systematics, plant history and plant geography. Volume 10, published by Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1888, Part I: Monokotyledoneae and Dikotyledoneae archichlamydeae. Pp. 1-50, panels I-VI; Part II: Dicotyledoneae sympetalae. P. 242–285, plates VII – X ( digitized version ( memento of the original from May 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice . )
- ↑ Article Marlothia Engl. Rhamnaceae , Marlothiella H. Wolff Umbelliferae and Marlothistella Schwantes Aizoaceae. In: CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names. Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology. Volume 3: M-O. Umberto Quattrocchi, CRC Press, Boca Raton [et al.] 2000, ISBN 0-8493-2677-X , pp. 1619-1620 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Aloe marlothii ( Memento from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on prota4u.info
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marloth, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marloth, Hermann Wilhelm Rudolf (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-South African botanist, pharmacist and chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Luebben |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 1931 |
| Place of death | Caledon , South Africa |