Carl Christian Mez

Carl Christian Mez ( born March 26, 1866 in Freiburg im Breisgau, † January 8, 1944 ) was a German botanist and university professor. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Mez ".

Life and work

Carl Christian Mez was born into a family of industrialists in Freiburg. He was a grandson of the entrepreneur and politician Karl Christian Mez ( 1808-1877 ). Even as a high school student, Carl Mez was interested in botany and wrote a post about a Inula bastard.

He studied from 1883 to 1884 at the Albert- Ludwigs- University of Freiburg, moved for a semester at the University of Berlin in 1886 and returned back to Freiburg. His dissertation on a topic of the Lauraceae he presented in Berlin, where he became a Dr. phil. doctorate.

After a short period at the Botanical Museum in Berlin Mez went to the University of Breslau, habilitated there and worked from 1890 as a lecturer. 1900 Mez was Professor of Systematic Botany and Pharmacognosy at the University of Halle in 1910 and Full Professor of Plant Physiology at the University of Königsberg, where he also took over the management of the Botanical Garden of Königsberg and was retired in 1935.

Mez -founded in 1922 the journal The Botanical archive and was until 1938 the editor.

His main research areas were systematics and physiology. Next he worked on taxonomy and morphology, especially the Lauraceae and serology led as a means of relationship research. He also worked mycological and wrote, among other works on the dry rot.

The plant genera Mezia Schwackendorf ex Niedenzu and Meziella Schindler have been named after him. 1907 Mez was appointed a member of the Leopoldina.

Writings

(Selection)

  • Lauraceae Americanae mono graphice, descripsit / - Berlin, 1889 Yearbook of the Royal Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, . Vol 5
  • The microscope and its application: a guide for microscopic examinations for pharmacists, physicians, Medicinal officials, technicians, etc. Gewerbtreibende - 8, much verm edition - Berlin 1899
  • Myrsinaceae. Leipzig [ et al ] 1902.
  • Microscopic examinations, prescribed by the German Pharmacopoeia: Guidelines for the microscopic Pharmacognostic internship at universities and for self-study - Berlin 1902
  • Theophrastaceae - Leipzig [ inter alia ]: 1903
  • The dry rot and other wood-destroying fungi of human dwellings: their recognition, significance and control. Dresden 1908.
  • Liability for dry rot and blight: a memorandum for builders, homeowners and lawyers .... Berlin 1910.
  • On the theory of sero- diagnosis - Berlin: Dt. ET -Ges. of Politics and History, 1925
  • Three lectures on the phylogeny of the plant world with one pedigree of the vegetable kingdom / 1925
  • Theories of evolution - Berlin: German Verl Ges - politics and history, 1926
  • Attempt a phylogeny of the fungal kingdom. Halle ( Saale) 1928.
  • Bromeliaceae. Leipzig 1935.
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