Wilhelm Troll

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Grave of Wilhelm Troll in the main cemetery in Mainz

Wilhelm Troll (born November 3, 1897 in Munich , † December 28, 1978 in Mainz ) was a German botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Troll ". He was the brother of the geographer Carl Troll .

Life

The son of the neurologist Theodor Troll and his wife Elisabeth, née Hufnagel, attended the elementary and three-class Latin school in Wasserburg am Inn until 1911 , then from the fourth to the seventh grade the grammar school in Rosenheim . From 1915 he was a student at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich before he was called up for military service in June 1916.

He served on the Western Front until the end of the war in 1918. Troll studied botany and natural sciences in Munich from 1918 to 1922. As an assistant at the Botanical Institute in Munich (1923 to 1932), he took part in an expedition to Malaysia from 1928 to 1930 , which mainly served to study mangrove vegetation. In 1928 he was appointed associate professor, in 1932 he was appointed to the University of Halle as head of the Botanical Institute and the Botanical Garden . In 1933 he applied for membership in the NSDAP , which was rejected in 1934 by the Halle-Merseburg branch.

After the Second World War, Troll worked temporarily from February 1946 as director of studies in Kirchheimbolanden , and from 1946 until his retirement in 1966 he was professor of botany at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . From 1950 to 1955 he built the university's botanical garden together with his technical gardening manager Max Top (1895–1986) . Since the economic situation was still very difficult at the beginning and everything was under construction at the re-established university, the garden was built almost entirely by the employees and students themselves.

Troll's scientific interest was primarily the morphology of plants. His studies of comparative morphology were in the tradition of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . His special focus was on the theory of forms (morphology) of the inflorescences, the inflorescence morphology . Wilhelm Troll also wrote several textbooks.

Wilhelm Troll left the Roman Catholic Church in 1919 , but rejoined in the 1940s. His civil marriage in 1925, he then also entered into church. He then joined the order of knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem .

In 1933 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and in 1947 a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

  • Organization and shape in the area of ​​the flower . 1928.
  • Comparative morphology of the higher plants . (1937-1942).
  • as editor with Theo Eckardt and Hermann Meusel : The vegetation conditions of the gypsum mountains in Kyffhäuser and in the southern Harz foreland. A contribution to the steppe heath question (= treatises of the Botanical Association of Central Germany , Volume 2, 1939). Book printing of the orphanage, Halle an der Saale / Berlin 1939.
  • General biology. A textbook on a comparatively biological basis . 1948.
  • Wilhelm Troll: General botany . Enke, 1948.
  • Wilhelm Troll, Stefan Vogel: Paperback of the alpine plants . Schreiber, 1953.
  • Wilhelm Troll: Practical introduction to plant morphology. T. 2. The flowering plant . G. Fischer, 1957.
  • The inflorescences . (1964-1969).
  • Wilhelm Troll, Focko Weberling : Inflorescence examinations on monotonic families. Materials on inflorescence morphology by Wilhelm Troll . Urban & Fischer, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-437-30599-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gisela Nickel: Wilhelm Troll (1897–1978): a biography . German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 1996, p. 184 f.
  2. ↑ Member entry of Wilhelm Troll at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on June 18, 2016.
  3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Troll. Member entry at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , accessed on June 19, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Troll, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1978
Place of death Mainz