Emil Johann Lambert Heinricher

Emil Johann Lambert Heinricher ( born November 14, 1856 in Ljubljana, † July 13, 1934 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian botanist. He dealt mainly with parasitic seed plants, especially the scales Wurzen and the mistletoe. In addition, however, he also published general contributions to the development history, anatomy, morphology and physiology of the parasitic angiosperms and Teratology. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Heinr. ".

Life

Emil Heinricher was born the son of a privy councilor Ljubljana. He studied in Graz, where he received his doctorate in 1879. From 1835 until his death in 1888 was assistant to Hubert Leitgeb. From 1882 he worked as a lecturer in botany.

1882 to 1883 he worked at Simon Schwendenerstrasse in Berlin and Julius Sachs in Würzburg. In 1888 he founded a botanical institute in Graz, but already in 1889 he succeeded Johann Joseph Peyritsch as a professor of botany at the University of Innsbruck. At the same time he also became director of the botanical garden of Innsbruck, where he planting for organic groups introduced in the newly erected in Hoetting 1900-1913 garden.

1903/1904 he took a trip to the tropics, where he worked at the Botanical Gardens Buitenzorg ( former Dutch name of the Indonesian city of Bogor ). He was from 1928 a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

His grandson is the mycologist Meinhard Moser.