Wilhelm Jännicke

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Wilhelm Jännicke (* as Carl Edgar Heinrich Wilhelm Jänicke March 4, 1863 in Frankfurt am Main ; † March 20, 1893 there ) was a German botanist and university professor.

Life

In 1884 Jännicke wrote his dissertation at the University of Marburg . On October 1, 1889, he was given the botany lectures at the Frankfurt Senckenberg Institute . Jännicke also worked as the second librarian for the Senckenberg Foundation . On April 22nd, 1892, Jännicke presented his habilitation thesis on the sand flora of Mainz at the Grand Ducal Technical University in Darmstadt and in the same year received the license to teach botany, which he exercised as a private lecturer . In his short life - Jännicke died at the age of only 30 - he made mainly himself throughbotanical works have a name.

Publications

(Selection)

  • Contributions to the comparative anatomy of the Papilionaceae . Marburg: University printing house, 1884 (inaugural dissertation)
  • Contributions to the comparative anatomy of the Geraniaceae . In: Treatises of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society, 14.2. Frankfurt a. M .: Diesterweg, 1886
  • The structure of the German flora (written version of a lecture given on December 17, 1887 to the Senckenberg Natural Research Society). In: Report on the Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Frankfurt a. M .: Knauer, 1888, pp. 110-134.
  • The discovery of America in its influence on the history of the plant world in Europe . In: Annual report of the Frankfurter Verein für Geographie and Statistics, vol. 55 / 56.1890 / 91-1891 / 92, pp. 1–3, Frankfurt / M .: Knauer
  • The sand flora of Mainz, a relict from the steppe era . Frankfurt M .: Knauer 1892. (Habilitation thesis, University of Darmstadt; revised version of a paper with the same title that was published in the botanical journal "Flora" in 1889)
  • together with Isaak Blum : Botanical guide through the urban facilities in Frankfurt am Main: Promenaden and Nice in Frankfurt am Main (with 7 plan sketches) . Frankfurt am Main: Mahlau & Waldschmidt, 1892.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register of the Free City of Frankfurt (entries 1-687) 01.1863-05.1863, 1863 (ISG Frankfurt am Main Best.STA 10/27), entry no. 283
  2. ↑ Registry office I (with Bornheim): death register (entries 601-1200) March 6, 1893-28 April 1893, 1893 (ISG Frankfurt am Main order STA 12/219), entry no. 746
  3. ↑ Botanisches Centralblatt, 13th vol., No. 8 of May 17, 1892, p. 255.
personal data
SURNAME Jännicke, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jänicke, Carl Edgar Heinrich Wilhelm (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1893
Place of death Frankfurt am Main