Joseph Schröter

Joseph Schröter ( born March 14, 1837 in Patschkau ( Upper Silesia ), † December 12, 1894 in Breslau) was one of the first German mycologist and next bacteriologist, physician and scientist.

Joseph Schröter wrote several books and texts. Many plants and especially fungal discoveries and descriptions go back to him.

Life

Joseph Schröter grew up in Patschkau ( Upper Silesia ), where he also went to school. His father was the local pharmacist. From 1855 he studied medicine at the University of Breslau. In 1856 he joined the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy for military medical education in Berlin. There he became a member of the country team Normannia. In December 1859 he received his doctorate with the work of De paralysi cerebri progressiva Dr. med and the same year he took his active duty as a military surgeon in the Prussian army. After his transfer to Wroclaw, Schröter in 1866 one of the first scientific assistant at the Institute of Physiology of the University of Breslau plants - under Ferdinand Cohn. After his re- transfer to Breslau he was habilitated in 1886 in the fields of bacteriology and mycology at the University of Breslau and worked alongside its military medical work as a lecturer. In 1890 he was then appointed to a professorship at the University of Breslau.

He died in 1894 after returning an expedition to Turkey from the effects of malaria.

Military career

1859: Entry into the Prussian Army, 1860: Medical assistant in the 8th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 70 in Saarlouis, later, in the Rheinische Artillery Brigade in Jülich, later in the second Rhenish Infantry Regiment # 28 in Aachen 1865: Promoted to Surgeon, battalion physician in the 3rd Grenadier Guards Regiment Queen Elizabeth in Wroclaw, 1866: Participation in the war against Austria, 1870: Participation in the German - French war, 1871: Laying his unit in Spandau, promotion to Surgeon- II class, 1872: Army Doctor in the first upper Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 22 in Rastatt, 1874: regimental doctor in the 6th Silesian field Artillery Regiment in Wroclaw, 1883: Surgeon first Class, 1892: Farewell to the army

Awards

Publications

  • Numerous articles in Ferdinand Cohn 's contributions to the biology of plants, including the plant parasites of the genus Synchytrium About the stem rot of Pandaneen, On Some pigments formed by bacteria
  • Essays in the annual reports of the Silesian Society for patriotic culture, including development history of Ustilagineae (1882 ), pit fungi ( 1883), Keller fungi ( 1884), evolution of Uredineae (1893 )
  • The natural plant families ( entire class of fungi), Engler and Prant, 1897

Of described him fungi

During his life, discovered and described J. Schröter, including the following genera and species:

  • Aleurodiscus
  • Ceratiomyxa
  • Clavulina
  • Daedaleopsis
  • Dicranophora
  • Hygrophoropsis
  • Plasmopara
  • Sclerospora
  • Sorosphaera
  • Synchephalastrum

Credentials

  • Heinrich Dörfelt & Heike Heklau: The History of Mycology 1998.
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