Georg Dieck

Georg Dieck ( born April 28, 1847 in Zöschen at Merseburg, † October 21, 1925 ) was a German botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Dieck ".

Biography

After attending high school in Naumburg, he studied natural sciences at Jena, where he was a pupil and assistant of Ernst Haeckel. In 1870, he taught in Zöschen a large arboretum, where over 6000 different tree and shrub species were cultivated. In addition to the maintenance of plant collectors, Dieck went well even on expeditions in the Rockies (1888), in the Caucasus (1891 ) and Spain (1892 ), where he collected beetles, plants and mosses, while new taxa as Orthotrichum cupulatum var baldaccii discovered. Further journeys led him to France, Italy and Sicily, Morocco, the Balkans and Turkey. After Dieck several plant taxa are named, including Brachythecium dieckii and maple Acer × dieckii hybrids.

1900 Diecks Wild Rose collection has been issued with 450 varieties of roses at the World Exhibition in Paris. Some of them acquired the Europa-Rosarium in Sangerhausen.

Works (selection)

• The moorland and alpine plants ( Ice Age flora ) of the National Arboretum and the Alpine Garden Zöschen b. Merseburg: and their culture. E. Karras, Halle an der Saale, 1899