Carl August Julius Milde

Carl August Julius Milde or shortly Julius Milde ( born November 2, 1824 in Breslau, † July 3, 1871 in Meran ) was a German botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " gentleness ".

Life

In the eleventh year Carl August Julius Milde came to Mary Magdalene school of his native city of Wroclaw. Even as a schoolboy he had created as a zealous Botanisierer an extensive natural history collection. Since he had to work out everything yourself, this also required immense physical effort. After the matriculation examination in 1846, he studied natural sciences at the University of Breslau. In his wide-ranging studies, he focused increasingly on the botany. Heinrich Goeppert, a widely recognized authority on Wroclaw addition, the young gentleness won all of his discipline and stayed him paternally connected until his death. Even Mild dissertation in 1850 was of such importance that the Leopoldinisch - Carolingische Academy of Sciences made ​​the young scientists to their member. Mild was teaching certificate in 1851, and after subsequent sample candidacy he was in 1853 as a teacher at the Breslau Junior High School " to the Holy Spirit." Julius Milde already died in his 48th year of life during one of his Stays in Merano.

Performance

In his scientific and botanical studies he specialized more and more to the study of cryptogams. The result was extensive, year after year, some excellent work. But his scientific ambition and thirst for research and to the teaching at the school damaged his health increasingly. Already in 1847 he had been to cures in Bad Salzbrunn (Polish Szczawno Zdr. ) And bathroom Reinerz (Polish Duszniki Zdr. ). But the respiratory complaints had worsened. So he went in 1861 to Bad Reichenhall and Merano. In the summer of 1862, although he was back in Wroclaw, but had in the following two winters back to Merano. But he was not to be dissuaded from his research work. In 1865 he published his book on " The higher spore plants in Germany and Switzerland ." The 1869 published by him work " Bryologia silesiaca " was in his time as the most important systematic work on mosses. In the various publications of the " Silesian Society of Patriotic Culture " published many contributions of clemency in which he reports on his findings during excursions especially in the field of phanerogams.

Numerous scientific societies appointed clemency honorary member. His name lives on in the cryptogams customer continues. In the botanical literature his name is associated with several plants discovered by him. Of particular importance were his monographic work on the class of horsetails ( Sphenopsida ). They led to new knowledge in anatomy and morphology. Shortly before his death, the title of a royal professor was awarded.

He was the genus Mild Ella Trevis honor. the plant family of Pteridaceae named.

Works

• The distribution of the Silesian mosses after the ups and their significance for the judging of the Silesian Flora, Jena 1861
• The higher cryptogams Germany 's and Switzerland, Leipzig 1865
• Bryologia silesiaca, Leipzig 1869