Hugo von Mohl
Hugo Mohl, since 1843 von Mohl ( born April 8, 1805 in Stuttgart, † April 1, 1872 in Tübingen ) was a German botanist, physician, and university professor. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Mohl ". Mohl is considered the discoverer of nuclear division.
He was brother of Robert von Mohl, Julius Mohl and Moritz Mohl.
Life and work
Mohl studied from 1823 in Tübingen medicine, then went after it had been in 1828 doing a PhD MD, at the University of Munich, where he worked as an assistant to Carl von Martius on the anatomy of ferns, Cykadeen and palm strain ( 1832) worked. In 1835 he became a professor of physiology at the University of Bern. In 1835 he was appointed as professor of botany to Tübingen, where he worked until his death.
His scientific investigations spanned almost all areas of botany, but above all he promoted the plant anatomy and made specially the solid pulp skeleton of the plant to the subject of extensive and successful investigations.
Also physiology and developmental history was promoted by him. Mohl different primordial 1844 and recognized in 1846 the protoplasm, which he finished with the now more usual names.
Awards
Writings
- About the construction and the winds of vines and creepers (1827 )
- About the construction and shapes of pollen grains (1834 )
- Micrograph or guidance note and the use of the microscope ( 1846)
- Principles of anatomy and physiology of the vegetable cell ( 1851).
A number of important essays collected in his " writings Vermischte botanical content" (1845 ). He also made contributions to the Palm Historia naturalis palmarum by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius. From 1843 he was with Diederich of Schlechtendal out the Botanical newspaper.
Swell
- Meyers encyclopedia 1888-1889
- Mägdefrau: History of botany. Fischer 1992