Wilhelm Ruhland

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Eugen Otto Wilhelm Ruhland (born August 7, 1878 in Schleswig ; † January 5, 1960 in Unterdeufstetten , Baden-Württemberg) was a German botanist and plant physiologist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Ruhland ".

Life

The son of a government secretary passed his matriculation examination in 1896 at the Cologne High School in Berlin . He studied botany at the University of Berlin , in 1899 he received his doctorate with the thesis Investigations on the morphology of the stream-forming Shaeriales on the basis of evolutionary history . In 1903 the habilitation followed. From 1903 to 1911 he was a private lecturer at the University of Berlin. He edited the Eriocaulaceae family for Adolf Engler for the work Das Pflanzenreich , Heft 13, 1903.

After working for several years at the Biological Reich Institute for Agriculture and Forestry, Ruhland received a paid associate professor for botany at the University of Halle , where he mainly devoted himself to agricultural issues. In 1918 he accepted a professorship at the University of Tübingen . In 1922 he moved to Leipzig as a full professor of botany , where he also headed the university's botanical garden. From 1947 Ruhland taught as an honorary professor in Erlangen .

In 1925, together with Hans Winkler, Ruhland founded the journal Planta (archive for scientific botany), but also pursued interests in the history of science. The member of the Leopoldina , the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , the Göttingen Academy of Sciences , the Prussian Academy of Sciences and the Saxon Academy of Sciences crowned his life's work with the publication of the Handbook of Plant Physiology in 18 volumes (1955 to 1967).

In November 1933, Ruhland signed the professors' commitment to Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges . In 1948 he became a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Honors

After Ruhland, the mushroom genus Ruhlandiella is also Henn. named from the Pezizaceae family.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Johannes Meisenheimer : Guide for the study of botany and zoology. Leipzig 1931.
  • with Karl Wetzel : On the physiology of the so-called leaf roll disease of the potato plant. In: Reports of the mathematical-physical class of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Vol. 85, H. 3a, 1933, pp. 141-149.
  • Ed .: Handbook of Plant Physiology. 18 volumes. Springer, Berlin 1955-1967
  • For the cold resistance of the plants. In: Reports of the mathematical-physical class of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Vol. 8, H. 1c, 1935, pp. 37-40.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 207.
  2. ↑ 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 Ruhland, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruhland, Eugen Otto Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and plant physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleswig
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 1960
Place of death Unterdeufstetten