Kurt Dinter

Moritz Kurt Dinter ( born June 10, 1868 in Bautzen, † December 16, 1945 in Neukirch / Lausitz ) was a German botanist and explorer. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Dinter ".

He was known especially for his work in the colony of German South West Africa, now Namibia. A variety of plant species is named after him.

Life and work

Kurt Dinter attended secondary school in Bautzen. Even as a child he shows interest in plants, which led to him after his military service to the profession of gardener and botanist. He worked for a time in the botanical gardens of Dresden and Strasbourg. Among other things, he worked as an assistant to Professor Oscar Drude.

Due to his extraordinary zeal it the care of the still known today Hanbury Botanical Gardens was transferred near the Italian Ventimiglia by Sir Thomas Hanbury, in which there were a number of South African plants. From 1894 to 1897 he was curator of the Botanic Garden. Dinter also spent six months at the Royal Botanic Gardens ( Kew ).

Mid-year 1897, traveled Kurt Dinter on the ship Melitta planks according to German South-West Africa and reached in June, the Lüderitz. From its base in Salem at the Swakop out he started on behalf of the German Colonial Society began collecting plants. In 1899 he gave up his work for the Colonial Society and moved on foot with two Herero to Windhoek, collecting incessantly plants. Its collections he sent to Erfurt, Zurich and Berlin.

From May 1900 Dinter was employed as a forestry official of the Imperial provinces and first official botanist in German South West Africa, a position he occupied until the outbreak of the First World War.

During a visit in Bautzen, he met his future wife, Jutta shields know that from now accompanied him on his travels and also has its own collection of plants docked.

Dinter put on his research trips back to the enormous distance of over 40,000 kilometers. His collection of pressed plants amounted to about 8400th

Honors

In honor of the plant genera were

  • Dintera Stapf the family of jugglers flower plants ( Phrymaceae )
  • Dinteracanthus CBClarke ex Schinz the family of Acanthaceae ( Acanthaceae )
  • Dinteranthus Schwant. the family of Mesembryanthemum plants ( Aizoaceae )

Named.

On the occasion of his 100th birthday which appeared named after him Botanical Magazine Dintera for the first time.

After his wife is the genus Juttadinteria Schwant. the plant family of Mesembryanthemum plants ( Aizoaceae ) named.

Publications

  • Alphabetical catalog of plants growing in the open air in the garden of Thomas Hanbury, Palazzo Orengo, La Mortola, near Ventimiglia, Italy, Genoa 1897
  • German South-West Africa: flora, forestry and agricultural fragments, Leipzig 1909
  • The vegetable Veldkost German South-West Africa, Okahandja 1912
  • New and little known plants German South-West Africa. With special consideration of succulents, Okahandja 1914
  • Botanical Journeys in German South-West Africa, Poznan 1918
  • West African Lithopsarten, pearl mountain 1928
  • Sukkulentenforschung in South West Africa 1: experiences and results of my trip in 1922, Berlin 1923
  • Sukkulentenforschung in South Africa 2: experiences and results of my journey in the years 1923-1925, Berlin 1928
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