Hermann zu Solms-Laubach

Hermann Graf zu Solms- Laubach, accurate Maximilian Hermann Carl Ludwig Friedrich Graf zu Solms- Laubach ( born December 23, 1842 in Laubach, near Giessen, † November 24, 1915 in Strasbourg ) was a German botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Solms ".

Life and work

He studied in Giessen, Berlin, Freiburg and Geneva. In 1868 he completed his habilitation at the University of Halle. In 1872 he became an associate professor in Strasbourg. In 1879, he was Professor and Director of the Botanical Garden in Göttingen, 1888 in Strasbourg. 1883 and 1884 he traveled to Java.

He worked on systematics and paleontology. He was also editor and from 1889 together with Wortmann editor of the Botanical newspaper.

Hermann Graf zu Solms- Laubach has contributed to great works of several contemporaries. So edited the work Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius the " Rafflesiaceae " (Vol. IV, No. 2, 1869/1890 ) and the " Caricaceae " (Vol. XIII No. 3, 1874/1900 ). At The natural plant families of Adolf Engler and Prantl Carl he wrote about " Pandanaceae " (III 1, 1887), " Rafflesiaceae, Hydnoraceae " (III 6, 1889) and " Caricaceae " (1893 ). For the plant The plant kingdom by Adolf Engler he wrote " Rafflesiaceae et Hydnoraceae " (1901 ). To Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis by Augustin - de Candolle Pyrame he wore " Chloranthaceae " (XVI 1, 1869) and " Lennoaceae " (XII, 1873) at. To Monographiae Phanerogamarum by Alphonse de Candolle Pyrame he contributed " Pontederiaceae " (vol. 4, 1883).

Writings

  • About the construction and development of the organs of nutrition of parasitic phanerogams. In: Yearbooks for scientific botany. Berlin from 1867 to 1868.
  • The Lennoazeen family. Botanical newspaper, Halle 1870.
  • About the construction of the seeds in the families of Rafflesiaceae and Hydnoraceae. Botanical newspaper, Halle 1874.
  • About the construction of flower and fruit in the family of Pandanaceae. Botanical newspaper, Halle 1878.
  • Origin, domestication and spread of ordinary fig tree. Göttingen 1882.
  • Corallina. Naples 1881 ( monograph of this genus ).
  • The gender differentiation in the fig trees. Botanical newspaper. In 1885.
  • Home and the origin of cultivated melon tree, Carica papaya. Botanical newspaper., 1889.
  • Introduction to the Paläophytologie. Leipzig 1887.
  • Wheat and tulip and its history. Leipzig 1899.
  • The conductive aspects of a general plant geography. Leipzig 1905.

Honors

In November 1902 he was admitted as a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. 1911 Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London awarded him. The plant genera Solmsia Baill. from the family of Seidelbastgewächse ( Thymelaeaceae ) and Solms- Laubachia Muschl. from the family of cruciferous plants (Brassicaceae ) have been named after him.

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