Theodor Herzog

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Theodor Carl Julius Herzog (born July 7, 1880 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † May 6, 1961 in Jena ) was a German botanist , bryologist and university professor . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Herzog ".

Live and act

Herzog studied in Freiburg , Zurich , and Munich with Ludwig Radlkofer . He received his doctorate in Munich in 1903. In 1907 he completed his habilitation in Zurich with Carl Schroeter .

From 1914 he taught at the University of Munich, initially as a private lecturer , from 1920 as an associate professor, and in 1925 was appointed professor of special botany at the University of Jena .

Herzog undertook major research trips to Sardinia (1904 and 1906), Ceylon (1905–1906) and South America , there especially Bolivia and Northern Argentina (1907–1908, 1910–1912).

Honors

1955 awarded him the University of Greifswald , the honorary doctorate . Are named after Duke moss species Herzogiella , Herzogobryum and flowering plants genus Oreoherzogia W.Vent from the family of the cross thorn plants (Rhamnaceae).

Fonts

  • 1903: Anatomical-systematic studies of the leaf of the Rhamneen from the shoots: Ventilagineen, Zizypheen and Rhamneen . Dissertation.
  • 1910: Travel pictures from Eastern Bolivia . 37 p. In: New Year's Gazette of the Natural Research Society in Zurich; 112. Zurich, Beer.
  • 1916: The bryophytes of my second trip through Bolivia . With amendment 1916–1920. 378 p., 353 fig., 9 plates.
  • 1923: The flora of the Bolivian Andes and their eastern foreland . (Vegetation of the Earth, 15). 258 p., 25 fig., 3 maps.
  • 1925: Mountain trips in South America . 212 p. 3 maps, 11 plates, 32 illustrations on 16 art print plates + 2 panoramas on 1 folding plate. Stuttgart, Strecker & Schröder.
  • 1926: Geography of the Mosses . 556 p., 151 fig., 8 plates. Jena.
  • 1958: Botanical delicacies . Reports of the Bavarian Botanical Society 32: 5–24. Munich.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 Duke, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duke, Theodor Carl Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1961
Place of death Jena