Theodor Butterfaß

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Theodor Butterfaß (born June 28, 1926 in Ulm ; † May 12, 2015 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German botanist and university professor.

Life

Theodor Butterfaß was a son of the bookseller Gustav Butterfaß and his wife Martha, nee. Large. He attended elementary and middle school and switched to the Kepler High School in 1943 . After he had already become an Air Force helper in 1943, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht the following spring. He was taken prisoner of war, from which he was released in October 1945. He then continued his school career and graduated from high school in 1946 . He then completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter and cabinet maker, which he completed in 1948 with the journeyman's examination. He then initially worked in industry before he began studying natural sciences at the TH Stuttgart in the winter semester of 1949/50 . From 1952 to 1953 he worked as a student assistant in the Botanical Institute, whose collection material had largely been lost during the war and had to be recompiled. Butterfaß then moved to Münster, where he began with Siegfried Strugger with a dissertation on the water balance of plants. With the work preliminary work on the topography of the uptake of drippable water by aboveground plant organs, he received his doctorate on February 20, 1956 in Münster. Parts of the dissertation appeared in the journal Protoplasma that same year .

Theodor Butterfaß worked from 1957 at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Genetics in Ladenburg , where he was primarily concerned with the genetics and cell biology of plastids . In 1959 he married Lotte Schumacher, with whom he had five children.

In 1964 Butterfaß completed his habilitation in Heidelberg . In 1970 he published the growth and development physiology of the plant. An introduction ; the book was published in 1973 in a Dutch version. From 1973 Butterfaß held a chair in Frankfurt . In particular, he did research on chloroplasts . In 1991 he retired. In retirement he took part in the compilation of a guide to the Botanical Garden of the University of Frankfurt , which was published in 2005 and had its second edition in 2008. The sections on cultivated plants and medicinal plants in particular go back to the churn.

The heirs handed over his academic legacy to the JC Senckenberg university library.

Fonts

  • Growth and development physiology of the plant. An introduction . Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg, 1970, ISBN 3-494-00648-2 .
  • German-language lover botanist. In: Reports of the Bavarian Botanical Society, 58, 1987 pp. 23–43 digitized ; in English as: Self-Taught Botanists of German Tongue . In: Reports of the German Botanical Society, 100, 1987, pp. 347–371.

literature

  • Ulrich Kull: Theodor Butterfaß. 1926-2015 . In: Annual Books of the Society for Natural History in Württemberg, 172, Stuttgart 2016, p. 277 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archivzentrum UB Frankfurt Na 81 - Theodor Butterfaß estate
personal data
SURNAME Butter churn, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 2015
Place of death Frankfurt am Main