Ernst Pringsheim, Jr.
Ernst Georg Pringsheim ( born October 26, 1881 in Breslau, † December 26, 1970 in Hannover ) was a German scientist and plant physiologist and professor of biochemistry and botany in Berlin, Prague and Cambridge and Göttingen. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " EGPringsh. ".
Life and work
Ernst Pringsheim came from an extremely wealthy Silesian family of Jewish descent. He was the son of Hugo Pringsheim (1845-1915) and Hedwig Johanna Heymann ( 1856-1938 ). He married in Königsberg on March 18, 1907 Lily Chun ( 1887-1954 ), the daughter of Professor Carl Chun. Marriage, from the date five children, was divorced in 1921. His second wife Pringsheim married on July 16, 1929 in Prague, the pharmacist Olga Zimmermann ( 1902-1992 ).
Ernst Pringsheim attended the Real Gymnasium in Breslau until graduation in 1902. Subsequently, he studied at the universities of Munich, Breslau, and from 1904 to 1906 in Leipzig natural sciences, especially botany, zoology and chemistry. He was encouraged to physiological studies by his supervisor William Pepper. 1905 doctorate Pringsheim in Leipzig.
Pringsheim in 1906 became an assistant at Plant Physiological Institute in Wroclaw, however, changed in the same year in the same position at the Botanical Institute of the University of Halle. In 1909 he qualified as a professor here for botany and published in 1912 a highly acclaimed monograph on the stimulus movements of plants.
At the beginning of World War II, Ernst Pringsheim took in Halle an activity in the Institute for Hygiene, from February 1916, he worked at the Institute for Hygiene of the University of Greifswald. In September 1916 he was discharged there.
Immediately drafted for military service, he was a medical orderly in the following years, and later as a bacteriologist at the consultative hygienists of the 5th Army. Immediately after his return, he took the scheduled Associate Professor, 1920-1923, he was Associate Professor at the University of Berlin.
1923 Ernst Pringsheim received a stipendiary professorship at the German University of Prague, 1924, he was appointed there as a full professor and director of the Plant Physiological Institute. In Prague, he worked mainly - like his ancestor Nathanael Pringsheim (1823-1894) - with the growth of algae and was together with Victor Czurda and Felix Mainx a pioneer in his field. He had in the meantime accepted the Czech citizenship.
Released in 1938, he emigrated in 1939 and found work as a curator of the Culture Centre of Algae and Protozoa, Cambridge, now based in Oban in Great Britain. 1951 emeritus, Ernst Pringsheim researched to 1953 in the Strangeway Laboratories in Cambridge.
In 1953, he returned as honorary professor at the University of Göttingen to Germany, also built there a collection of algal cultures and continued to publish writings on the physiology of algae.