Hans Edmund Nicola Burgeff

Hans Edmund Nikola Burgeff ( born April 19, 1883 in Geisenheim (Rheingau ), † 27 September 1976) was a German botanist and university professor. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Burgeff ".

Life

Burgeff studied from 1903 to 1905 at the University of Freiburg ( among others, Friedrich Oltmanns ), from 1905 to 1906 in Berlin, and from 1906 to 1909 in Jena natural sciences.

In Jena, he was born in 1909 received his doctorate with a thesis on the biology of orchid mycorrhiza. After a brief spell as assistant to Wilhelm Pfeffer in Leipzig in 1909, and in Montpellier 1910 Burgeff assistant at the University of Munich, where he habilitated in 1916.

From 1920 to 1921 he was associate professor at the University of Halle, 1921-1923 again in Munich. In 1923 he was appointed as a full professor in Göttingen where he was appointed in 1925 as Professor of Botany and Pharmacognosy at the University of Würzburg. He was also director of the botanical garden.

Burgeff dealt with matters of mycorrhiza in the Ericaceae and Orchidaceae and especially with genetic problems in lower plants, including in Phycomyces nitens.

In 1936 Burgeff was elected a member of the Leopoldina. In 1942 he received the X- Prize of the University of Würzburg, where he worked until his retirement.

Burgeff one beside Noël Bernard of the pioneers of Orchideenmykorrhiza research. His particular interest was the cytological structure and function of the Orchideenmykorrhiza. He developed the concept of the fungal digestion, Tolypophagie that still applies today.

The sculptor and art professor Hans Karl Burgeff was his son.

Writings (selection )

Source

• Dörfelt / Heklau: History of Mycology. unicorn