Friedrich Adalbert Maximilian Kuhn

Friedrich Maximilian Adalbert Kuhn ( born September 3, 1842 in Berlin, † December 13, 1894 in Berlin- Friedenau ) was a German botanist. Often Maximilian Friedrich Adalbert Kuhn or Maximilian ( Max ) Kuhn wrote. His botanical author abbreviation is " Kuhn ".

Life

Kuhn was in 1862 at the Cologne School in Berlin graduated from high school. His studies in natural sciences, he graduated in Berlin, where he primarily but Alexander Brown taught Johannes von Hanstein, Hermann Karsten, in botany.

While still a student in 1865, he participated under the direction of Paul Friedrich August Ascherson on a botanical expedition to the Carpathians, the scientific results he edited and wrote in a report of the proceedings of the Botanical Society of the Province of Brandenburg in 1865. These records have not been printed or published.

Meanwhile, Kuhn had trained in the field of Farnkunde to a recognized authority, so that he was in 1866 after the death of fern researcher Georg Heinrich Mettenius transmit the order of his scientific legacy of his father, Alexander Brown. In this way, by Kuhn in 35th and 36th volume of the Linnaea (1867 /68) published Reliquiae emerged Mettenianae. At the same time was left to him the editing of rich fern collection that were brought back from a expedition to Africa under the leadership of Baron Karl Klaus von der Decken. The first results published Kuhn first in his 1867 dissertation incurred: Filices Deckenianae, while summing up the far greater part of the following year in the Filices Africanae. This catalog of all hitherto known African cryptogams has remained the most extensive work on Kuhn's his specialty. After two years of activity assistants at the Royal Herbarium in Berlin Kuhn was in December 1868 his examination for teachers at secondary schools. After the sample year, he was hired in 1870 at the former King Municipal Secondary School in Berlin as a teacher and moved in 1879 to the head teacher, in 1889, a professor at. Due to its long-standing heart condition, his health deteriorated such that he had to submit his retirement in 1893 at the age of 51 years. A study carried out for the relief amputation of the right leg was the deterioration of his disease but not stopped and he died in 1894 of a heart attack on his rural estate located in Berlin.

Besides the already mentioned Farnsammlungen Kuhn edited are various other tropical areas, such as those of Carl Friedrich Naumann on the journey of the SMS Gazelle during the years 1874-76 collected. A list of his publications can be read in the below obituary of Paul Ascherson. Kuhn's extensive Farnherbar along with his handwritten legacies as well as part of his books bequeathed to his widow the Berlin Botanical Museum as a gift.

Works

• Reliquiae Mettenianae. In: Linnaea Berlin: A Journal for botany in its whole extent. Edited August Garcke, Vol 35, Berlin 1867/1868: 385-394 and Vol 36, 1869/1870: 41-169.
• Filices Africanae. Edited by W. Engelmann, Leipzig 1868, 233 pp., 1 plate.
• Filices Novarum Hebridarum. Vienna 1869, 18 pp.