Johannes Reinke

Johannes Reinke ( born February 3, 1849 in Ziethenstraße, Principality of Ratzeburg, † February 25, 1931 in Preetz ) was a German botanist and vitalist philosopher. At the Christian- Albrechts- University, he was Professor of Botany. His botanical author abbreviation is " Reinke ".

Life

Reinke initially studied Protestant theology at the University of Rostock, then devoted himself but of botany. In 1879 he was appointed to a chair of botanical Georg -August- University of Göttingen, where he founded the Institute of Plant Physiology. In 1885 he moved as a successor to Adolf Engler at the Christian -Albrechts- University. 1891/92 he was its rector. In his rectorial address on March 5, 1891, he dealt with the universities in the Kingdom of Prussia. In 1921 he became Professor Emeritus.

For the Kiel University, he sat from 1894 to 1918 in the Prussian mansion.

Work

Reinke was a founder of the German Botanical Society. His wide-ranging interests included the botanical floristics, systematics, together with the plant development cycles, cell biology and physiology of the brown algae. In Kiel he recognized as Director of the Botanical Garden, the potential of the Kiel Fjord and the Baltic Sea for detailed studies. Between 1888 and 1892 he published a large number of scientific writings on the algae of the North and Baltic Seas. Larger works treat the algae family of Tilopteridaceae (1889 ) and the Sphacelariaceae ( 1890). An eye disease forced him to turn away from the microscopy.

Reinke was an outstanding representative of neo- vitalism and a strong critic of Darwinism. In 1901 he coined the term Theoretical biology to define the discipline of a conceptual and theoretical point of view. This is also a distinction to empirical biology was meant. Reinke tried to explain the evolutionary process through morphogenesis and genetic regulation with the help of his dominant theory.

Finally, he completely turned to theoretical and philosophical considerations and began to write novels religiously motivated.

Writings

  • Historical research into the development Dictyotaceen of the Gulf of Naples. Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino - Carolinae Germanicae naturae Curiosorum, Vol 40, 1 ( 1878)
  • Botanical treatises in the field of morphology and physiology, 1878
  • Textbook of general botany, 1880
  • Atlas German seaweed, 1889 and 1891
  • The development of the natural sciences, especially biology in the nineteenth century, 1900
  • Introduction to the Theoretical Biology, 1901, 2nd edition 1911
  • The world as a fact: Outlines of a world view on scientific basis, 1903
  • Studies on the comparative history of development of Laminariaceen, 1903
  • Philosophy of Botany, 1905
  • The nature and ourselves. Easy to understand records, 1907
  • Haeckel's monism and his friends - a free word for free science, 1907
  • The art of philosophy, 1911
  • The oldest botanical garden keel; documentary presentation of the reasoning of a university institute in the seventeenth century, 1912
  • Critique of the theory of evolution, 1920
  • Science, philosophy, religion, 1923
  • My daily work, 1925
  • The dynamic view of the world, 1926
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