Walther Leonhard Wangerin

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Walther Leonhard Wangerin (born April 15, 1884 in Giebichenstein near Halle , † April 19, 1938 in Danzig-Langfuhr ) was a German botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Wangerin ".

Life

Wangerin studied mathematics, physics and biology at the Universities of Halle and Berlin from 1902 to 1906 . After graduating as Dr. phil. and the state examination for the higher teaching post (both in 1906) he was employed in 1908 as a senior teacher in Burg (near Magdeburg) . In 1910 he moved to Königsberg (Prussia) , in 19134 to Danzig , where he became a lecturer in the same year, and in 1922 extraordinary associate professor of botany and director of the Botanical Institute of the TH Danzig . Since 1920 he was department director at the Gdansk Museum of Natural History and Prehistory and from 1921 natural monument curator of the Free City of Gdansk .

For the plant The plant kingdom of Adolf Engler worked Wangerin 1910 the plant families Garryaceae, Nyssaceae, Alangiaceae and Cornaceae. He was also a collaborator at Kirchner, Loew and Schroeter: Life history of the flowering plants of Central Europe , 1927–1938. In 1914 he became a member of the Leopoldina .

Honors

The plant genus Wangerinia E. Franz from the carnation family (Caryophyllaceae) was named after him.

Works (selection)

  • The outline and division of the Cornaceae family. 1906
  • About the shape of the Statica Limonium ... 1911

literature

  • Catalogus Professorum . In: Contributions and documents on the history of the Gdansk Technical University 1904–1945 . Hanover 1979, p. 164
  • Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
  • Carl Schröter: Walther Wangerin on his seventieth birthday. In: The natural sciences. Berlin 14.1926,7, 109ff. ISSN  0028-1042

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 2077. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7
  2. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Walther Wangerin
  3. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Wangerin, Walther Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Hall
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1938
Place of death Danzig