Friedrich Traugott Kützing

Friedrich Traugott Kützing ( born December 8, 1807 in Ritteburg at Artern, † September 9, 1893 in Nordhausen ) was a German botanist and algae researcher. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Kütz. ".

After he was first employed as a pharmacist Kiitzing studied in Halle science, made a botanical trip to the littoral, Dalmatia, Italy and in the Alps and in 1838 science teachers at the secondary school in Nordhausen. In 1843 he was appointed professor in 1883 and went into retirement.

For the special Algology a new era was established by Kützings work. His work "Species algarum " ( Leipz. 1849) contains all the then known species. He also wrote: " Synopsis Diatomearum " (Hall 1833); " Tabulae phycologicae " ( Nordh. 1845-70, 20 vols with 2,000 colored illustrations ); " Phycologia generalis, or anatomy, physiology, and the system customer Tange " ( Leipz. 1843, with 80 colored plates ); " The pebble -skinned Bacillarien or diatoms " ( Nordh. 1844, with 30 panels; 2 Abdr. 1865); " Phycologia germanica " (ibid. 1845). K. also issued the " Algae aquae dulcis " (Hall 1833-36, Issue 1-16) in dried specimens, and even wrote: " The natural sciences in schools as a carrier of Christian humanism " ( Nordh. 1850) and "Principles of philosophical Botany " ( Leipz. 1851-52, 2 vols ).

In the latter work he performed as a defender of spontaneous generation and fought against the hypothesis of the stability of the species.

Kiitzing also worked with yeast. He was one of the first scientists in 1837 to demonstrate the importance of yeasts in alcoholic fermentation irrespective of Charles Cagniard -Latour and Theodor Schwann.