Karl Moritz Schumann

Karl Moritz Schumann ( born June 17, 1851 in Görlitz, † March 22, 1904 in Berlin) was a German botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " K.Schum. ".

Life

Karl Moritz Schumann visited until 1869, the Real Gymnasium in Görlitz. Subsequently, he studied in Berlin, Munich and Breslau, where he first worked on chemistry, but later turned to botany. On July 19, 1873 he received his doctorate with the work and growth in thickness Cambium at the University of Breslau. From 1872 to 1876 Schumann worked there as an assistant to Heinrich Goeppert. In November 1875 Schumann was the Prussian state exam and taught from 1876 to eight years at secondary school " to the Holy Spirit " in Breslau. In the summer of 1884 he was hired by August Wilhelm Eichler as a curator at the Botanical Museum Berlin. In June 1892 he was appointed professor and received in the spring of 1893 the right to hold lectures on botany at the University of Berlin.

Schumann was elected in December 1892 as Chairman of the newly formed Society of Friends cacti, which was renamed in 1898 German Cactus Society. He held this office, with a brief interruption in 1897, held until his death. He died at the age of 52 years from the effects of bladder surgery.

Writings

Schumann's most important work was published in 1899 overall description of cacti ( Monographia Cactacearum ), the first comprehensive presentation on this topic. In it, the then known 670 species of cacti were grouped in 21 genera. In Schumann still valid today outline the cactus goes back into the subfamilies Pereskioideae, Opuntioideae and Ceroideae (the latter now Cactoideae ).

Together with Ernst Friedrich Gilg he published the work of the plant kingdom, Verlag J. Neumann, Neudamm ( 1900).

Karl Moritz Schumann worked on The natural plant families of Adolf Engler and Prantl and Carl at the Flora Brasiliensis of Martius. In addition, he was from 1900 to 1904, the first issues of the collective work Flowering cactus out and wrote the textbook internship for morphological and systematic botany ( 1904).

Schumann was since September 1891 editor of the " Monthly Journal of Kakteenkunde " and 1891-1902 co-editor of the Atlas of officinal plants.

Honors

The German Cactus Society was introduced in 1994 published the magazine Schumannia. In addition, it awards every year since 1995 the Karl Schumann Prize for scientific work in the field of Sukkulentenkunde.

After Schumann plant genera Schumannia O. Kuntze, Schumannianthus Gagnep were. and Schumanniophyton Harms named, along with individual plant species such as the cycad Cycas schumanniana or Mammillaria schumannii, Cyperus karlschumannii and Notocactus schumannianus.

Writings

• The ant-plants. Verlagsanst. and Dr. A.-G., Hamburg 1889 ( digitized )
• Karl Lauterbach: The flora of the German protectorates in the South Seas. Brothers Borntraeger, Leipzig 1901 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.717
• Karl Lauterbach: supplements for Flora of the German protectorates in the South Seas. Brothers Borntraeger, Leipzig 1905 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.710