Franz Josef Niedenzu

Franz Josef Niedenzu ( born November 29, 1857 in Köppernig; † 30 September 1937 Brown Mountain, East Prussia ) was a German botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Nied. ".

Life

Niedenzu attended high school in Neisse, where he made 1878 the Abitur. He then studied at Breslau math and science and was an active member of the Catholic Fraternity K.. St.V. Unitas Breslau in KV. After his state examination in 1886, he was first at Breslau John High School operates, to be then in 1888 a research assistant botanist Adolf Engler and a doctorate under him in 1889. As Engler was called to Berlin, Niedenzu also went with him to Berlin.

1892 Niedenzu obtained the chair of mathematics and natural sciences at the Lyceum Hosianum in Brown Mountain, which was later renamed the " National Academy ". Niedenzu founded the Botanical Garden of Brown Mountain.

Niedenzus main area of ​​work was the Systematic Botany, starting from the works of his teacher Engler, who had established a new plant systematics.

Niedenzu was the editor of the 20th to the 22nd edition of the Flora of Germany by Christian August Friedrich Garcke. Niedenzu was famous for his work on the Malpighiengewächse; for the plant The plant kingdom by Adolf Engler, he wrote to the corresponding chapter " Malpighiaceae ." About the work The natural plant families of Engler and Prantl Carl, he contributed nine descriptions family.

He described many new species and six new genera: Alcoceratothrix ( = Byrsonima ) Callyntranthele ( = Blepharandra ) Cordobia, Diaspis ( = Caucanthus ) Malpighiodes and Sprucina ( = Jubelina ).

Niedenzu, since 1925 Rector of the Academy Brown Mountain, in 1926 professor emeritus. In addition to his membership in the connection Unitas Breslau, he was also an honorary Philistine king Berger KV connections Borussia and Tannenberg.