Carl Friedrich Warnstorf

Carl Friedrich Warnstorf ( born December 2, 1837 in Sommerfeld, Lausitz, † February 28, 1921 in Berlin- Friedenau ) was a German educator, florist and Bryologe. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " warn. ".

Life

Carl Warnstorf was born the son of a shoemaker. After visiting the main school and the preparatory school in Sommerfeld 1855-1858 he completed the teacher training college in Neuzelle. In 1861 he became a teacher in Arnswalde, where he married Emilie Hubler (d. 1917), and 1867 in Neuruppin, where he worked pedagogically 32 years. He has continuously operated more intensively in addition to his professional work, and after his 1899 retirement and made ​​a move to Berlin by the handling of his Sphagnologia universalis until his death His botanical researches.

He dealt mainly with peat moss, which he also wrote as a recognized specialist author of numerous publications. He increased the number of known Sphagnum species considerably, he opened up new feature complexes, such as the pore distribution in the leaflets or the formation of bulbils and Rhizoidknöllchen. His extensive Moosherbar was largely destroyed in the war, only a Restherbar remained. For his services he was awarded in 1917 the honorary title of professor. Moreover, according to him a genus of mosses ( Drepanocladus = Warnstorfia ), and 18 species have been named. He died at the age of 83 years.

His final resting place is located on the southwest Stahnsdorf.

Writings

  • The European peat bogs. A review and description of the same, Berlin 1881; Les sphaignes d'Europe, also in 1888; The European Sphagneaceae, London 1901.
  • The peat mosses in the Royal. Botanical Museum in Berlin. A bryological study, Cassel 1882.
  • Sphagnologische recaps, Regensburg 1884.
  • Moss flora of the province of Brandenburg. A systematic compilation of previously observed in this area, liver, peat and mosses, Berlin 1885.
  • Liver and peat mosses, Leipzig 1903; Mosses, Leipzig 1906. ( = Cryptogamic flora of the Mark Brandenburg and related fields, Volume 1 and 2).
  • . Sphagnales - Sphagnaceae ( Sphagnales universalis ), Leipzig 1911 ( = Adolf Engler plant kingdom Vol 51); ND Weinheim 1958; Leipzig 1965; Vaduz 1976.
  • To Bryo - Geography of the Russian Empire: A memory of Dr. E. Zickendraht, Dresden 1913.
  • Bryophyta ( Sphagnales, Bryales, Hepaticae ). ( = The Freshwater Flora of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, H. 14), Jena, 1914. ( With W. Mönkemeyer and V. Schiffner ).
  • Pottia studies as preparatory work for a monograph of the genus " Pottia Ehrh " sensstr. , Dresden 1917.
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