Thomas Bokorny

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Thomas Bokorny (born January 19, 1856 in Neukirchen (Thierhaupten) , † February 14, 1929 in Munich ) was a German chemist and botanist .

Life

Bokorny grew up as the son of a teacher . After attending school in Dillingen , he studied at the Polytechnic School in Munich, where he passed the teaching examination for descriptive natural sciences in 1877 and for chemistry and mineralogy in 1878 . Shortly before the first exam, he became a member of the Corps Ratisbonia in 1877 . In 1881 he received his doctorate as a scientific assistant at the botanical laboratory of the University of Munich. From 1882 to 1887 he was an assistant at the chemical department of the Kaiserslautern industrial school and then moved to the Botanical Institute of the University of Erlangen . There he completed his habilitation in 1888 and was appointed private lecturer for botany in the same year .

In 1892 he went to Munich as a lecturer (high school professor) for chemistry, mineralogy and description of nature at the military training institute (cadet corps, artillery and engineering school and war academy).

Works

  • The transparent points of the leaves in anatomical and systematic relation . Dissertation. Munich 1882.
  • The chemical source of power in living protoplasm . JA Finsterlin 1882
  • Plant Physiology Textbook . Parey 1898.
  • About the occurrence of the "tannin" in the plant kingdom and its relationship to active albumin . Hüthig, 1904.
  • Textbook of botany for high schools and secondary schools . W. Englemann 1908.
  • Chemistry framework: A short vademecum of inorganic and organic chemistry in tabular form . Beyer 1945.

literature

  • Clemens Wachter (arr.): The professors and lecturers at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen 1743–1960. Part 3: Philosophical Faculty. Faculty of Science . Erlangen 2009, p. 22.
  • German Biographical Archive , New Series, 151, 27–29

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Announcement about his death in: Ratisbonen-Zeitung No. 58 (1929), p. 15.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 114 , 43.

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personal data
SURNAME Bokorny, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Neukirchen (Thierhaupten)
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1929
Place of death Munich