Carl Bolle

Carl August Bolle ( born November 21, 1821 in Schoeneberg, † February 17, 1909 in Berlin) was a German naturalist and collector. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Bolle ".

Life and work

Carl Bolle was born the son of a rich brewer David Bolle and Henriette Marggraf. He attended the French School and studied medicine and natural history in 1841 in Berlin and Bonn. He became in 1842 a member of the fraternity Fridericia Bonn. In 1846 he was - back in Berlin - with the work of De vegetatione alpina in Germania extra- Alpes obvia ( via the alpine vegetation in Germany outside the Alps ) is doing a PhD Dr. med. However, he exercised the profession of a doctor never go out, but devoted himself entirely to his natural history hobbies. He visited in 1852 and 1856 the Cape Verde and Canary Islands and in 1857 wrote My second contribution to the ornithology of the Canary Islands.

Bolle 1867 was a founding member of the German Ornithologists' Society ( D -OG ) and followed in 1884 Alfred Brehm as chairman. He also worked in the German Dendrological society and in the " Brandenburgia ". In 1855 he was also elected a member of the Scholars Academy Leopoldina.

In 1867 he bought the family von Humboldt, the island Scharfenberg in Berlin. Here he built a villa in 1883 and put a Dendrological Garden ( Arboretum ) to. The villa was demolished in 1951, but have retained some trees planted by him. His grave was located on the Berlin Matthäikirchhof. The tomb stands on the island today Scharfenberg.

Bolles Laurel Pigeon (Columba bollii ) was named by Frederick DuCane Godman after him, even the pillar Populus alba White Poplar var bolleana, today P. alba ' pyramidalis ' in his name.