Friedrich August Körnicke

Friedrich August Koernicke ( born January 29, 1828 in Pratau at Wittenberg; † January 16, 1908 in Bonn ) was a German Agrikulturbotaniker. He taught thirty-one years at the Agricultural Academy in Bonn -Poppelsdorf and was considered one of the most competent internationally recognized experts in the field of cereal customer. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Körn. ".

Journey

Friedrich August Koernicke, son of small farmers Koernicke Georg and his wife Johanna ( Schmidt, * 1804), attended high school in Wittenberg until 1847 and then studied at the University of Berlin mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and human physiology. There he became a member of the country team Normannia. Because of its acquired on numerous excursions knowledge of plants and by promoting the encouragement of acting in Berlin botanist Alexander Braun and Johannes von Hanstein he found the way to scientific botany. Already during his studies he worked as an employee at the Royal Herbarium in Schöneberg b. Berlin operates with its custodian Johann Friedrich Klotzsch he published in 1858 a treatise on the vegetation in northern Germany.

After Koernicke 1856 at the University of Berlin phil with a couched in Latin dissertation in the field of botany to the Dr.. had been his doctorate, he took over the same year a job as a curator at the Herbarium of the Imperial Botanical Gardens in St. Petersburg. In 1858 he was second secretary of the Russian Association horticulture at St. Petersburg. As of May 1858, he worked as a science teacher at the Agricultural Academy Waldau near Königsberg ( East Prussia ). With other colleagues he founded in 1862 in Elbing the " Prussian botanical club," which it had set itself the task of promoting the knowledge of the flora of East Prussia and Pomerania. With the dissolution of the Agricultural Academy Waldau in 1867 Koernicke was " added " to the Agricultural Academy in Bonn -Poppelsdorf. As the successor of the botanist Julius Sachs, he worked there until 1898. During the same year he was appointed a Privy Councillor.

Friedrich August Koernicke was married to Marie lump. The marriage sprang two daughters and three sons. His son Max Koernicke ( different spelling of the family name ) worked since 1908 also as a botanist at the Agricultural Academy in Bonn -Poppelsdorf.

Research services

In Bonn Koernicke devoted mainly to the study of agricultural crops. Central objects of investigation were the cereals, the systematic study of the different varieties was all about focus. Koernicke taught in Bonn an economically - botanical garden experiment, could be send seed samples from all over the world and studied on small plots plant development to maturity. Of far-reaching importance for crop research while his discovery of the wild primitive form of wheat was. Just a few years after he took office in Bonn, he was in the international scientific community as one of the best cereal connoisseur. In later appreciations he was called " master of Ceralienkunde ". Also, " retired ", he supervised continue its economic and botanical garden experiment.

The most important results of his research has summarized Koernicke in common with Hugo Werner in 1885 published "Manual of Getreidebaues ". This book, with detailed botanical descriptions of the main types, varieties and varieties of cereals, their history, distribution and pollination biology, was for decades one of the best standard works in the field of crop research. Koernicke also has other crop species, especially legumes, observed and described in detail in a similar manner. He has published more than 90 posts. In addition to essays on the Rhine Flora he also published a number of papers on plant diseases.

Key Publications

• Monographia scripta de Eriocaulaceis. Phil Diss Univ. Berlin 1856.
• The vegetation of duty united and northern Germany (together with JF Klotzsch ). In: G. von Viehbahn: Statistics of duty united and northern Germany. G. Reimer Verlag Berlin 1858, pp. 849-896.
• Systematic Review of cereals and legumes monocarpischen in spikes, panicles, fruits and seeds from the economic and botanical garden of the Royal Prussian Academy Agricultural to Poppelsdorf in Bonn, issued in Vienna in 1873. Bonn in 1873 (55 p and 1 Table ).
• The Saatgerste. Hordeum vulgare L. sensu latiore. In: Journal of the whole brewing Vol 5, 1882, pp. 113-128, 161-172, 177-186, 193-203, 205-208, 305-311, 329-336, 393-413 and plates V -XIV.
• History of the garden bean. In: Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Prussian Rhineland and Westphalen Vol 42, 1885, pp. 3-20.
• Handbook of Getreidebaues. Publisher of Emil Strauss Bonn 1885 Vol 1:. Species and varieties of corn, edited by F. Koernicke. Vol 2: The varieties and the cultivation of corn, edited by Hugo Werner.
• The development and behavior of new cereal varieties, edited by Max Koernicke. In: Archives for Biontology Vol 2, 1908, pp. 389-437.