Carl Julius Bernhard Börner

Carl Julius Bernhard Börner ( born May 28, 1880 in Bremen, † June 14, 1953 in Naumburg ( Saale) ) was a German entomologist, botanist and oenologist. His botanical author abbreviation is " Börner ".

Life

Carl Börner studied biology in Marburg. From the year 1903 he was an assistant at the Imperial Biological Institute (later Biological PTR ) in Berlin- Dahlem. As head of the vines station elm Weiler ( Villers- l'Orme ) today part of Vany, at Metz in Lorraine from 1907 he devoted himself to the study of the biology and control of phylloxera. He discovered the different phylloxera races in 1910. After relocation of vines station to Naumburg (Saale ) he bred there reblausresistente documents. He showed that American vines phylloxera resistance and have forced the base breeding. From the year 1923, the Pfropfrebenanbau in Germany has been approved and the fight against phylloxera gained thereby.

In addition, Carl Börner worked at the phylloxera laws with ( phylloxera Regulation ) and the control of the pest infested by German wine-growing regions. In 1935 he discovered the first wild grape Vitis cinerea phylloxera-resistant American Arnold, taken after further selection work by Helmut Becker in Geisenheim in 1989 under the name Börner in the register of varieties and classified in 1991 for the Federal Republic of Germany.

For his fundamental research in the areas of comparative morphology and taxonomy of arthropods and in recognition of his significant contributions to the recovery phylloxera- resistant vines and apple trees blutlausfester he was awarded on June 3, 1953 Honorary Doctorate of Science at the TU Dresden.

His collection of springtails is located in the Natural History Museum in London and the German Entomological Institute in Muencheberg.