Augusto Weberbauer

August Weber Bauer ( * November 26, 1871 in Breslau, † January 16, 1948 in Lima, Peru) was a Prussian biologist and pioneer in the study of the flora of Peru and the Andes. At the University of Lima, he held for ten years the Department of Pharmaceutical Botany. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Weberb. ".

Academic career

Weber Bauer was born on 26 November 1871 as a son of mycologists Otto Weber Bauer ( 1846-1881 ) and his wife Antonia Weber Bauer, born Adamczyk, in Breslau. After graduating from high school in Glatz in 1890, he studied natural sciences with a major in biology at various German universities (Breslau, Berlin and Heidelberg, Germany) and received his doctorate in Berlin in 1894. In 1898 he qualified as a professor in Breslau.

Activities in Peru and Cameroon

From 1901 to 1905, he traveled for the first time Peru and explored the local flora. His collected plants he sent for processing and determination at the Royal Museum in Dahlem in Berlin. After two years (1906 and 1907 ) as director of the botanical garden in Victoria, Cameroon took Weber Bauer 1908 line to the zoo and the botanical garden in Lima, Peru. In 1914 he continued in this capacity in order to unbound and intensive research in Peru can.

After working in the meantime as an employee of a mining company in the province of Huaura, as well as a teacher at the boys' school " Instituto de Lima " and the German School Alexander von Humboldt in Lima, he received in 1922 a Department of Pharmaceutical Botany at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima. He held until 1932 the Chair. Until his death on January 16, 1948 Weber Bauer was head of the botanical seminar at the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos.

Exploration of the flora of Peru

During his teaching career and afterwards undertook Weber Bauer several trips to explore the flora of the Andes (Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina). He received financial support, among others, by the Field Museum of Natural History.

Works (excerpt)

In addition to his 1911 published major work " The flora of the Peruvian Andes in its basic features ," which in 1945 in a Spanish-speaking, advanced output ( " El mundo vegetal de los Andes peruanos " ) appeared, Weber Bauer has published a number of other plans, most with the vegetation of the Andean deal. Among his other works, inter alia, include

  • Anatomical and biological studies on the vegetation of the high Andes of Peru. 1905
  • Principles of Climate and plant distribution in the Peruvian Aden. 1906
  • More news about vegetation and climate of the high Andes of Peru. 1907
  • The flora of the Peruvian Andes shown in its basic features. 1911
  • Plant geography studies in southern Peru. 1912
  • Plant life in the north of Peru, in the department Tumbez and adjacent parts of the department of Piura. In: Botanical yearbooks for systematics, plant history and geography of plants. Leipzig, Berlin, 1929.
  • Studies on the temperature conditions of the soil in the Andean uplands area of Peru and its significance for plant life. In: Botanical yearbooks for systematics, plant history and geography of plants. Leipzig, Berlin 1929
  • About the cushion plant pycnophyklum aristatum and cushion plants in general. 1931
  • La influencia de cambios y climáticos geológicos sobre la flora de la costa peruana. 1939
  • Principios de clasificación aplicables a las formaciones vegetales del Perú. 1942

Awards

  • In 1948, Weber Bauer was awarded the Order El Sol del Perú, an award that is awarded by the Peruvian government for special achievements in Peru.
  • Curt Backeberg named the genus Weberbauerocereus from the cactus family, according to Weber Bauer.

Swell

  • Holger Wittner: August Weber Bauer - a Prussian explorer in Peru. In: cacti and other succulents. Volume 55, Issue 1, pp. 26-27, 2004
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