Ludwig Diels

Friedrich Ludwig Emil Diels (* September 24, 1874 in Hamburg, † November 30, 1945 in Berlin) was a German botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Diels '.

Life and work

Friedrich Ludwig Emil Diels is the son of classical scholar and religious scholar Hermann Diels. He holds a doctorate Diels toured from 1900 to 1902 together with Ernst Pritzel among others South Africa, Java, Australia and New Zealand and shortly before the First World War, New Guinea, and in the 1930s, Ecuador. In particular, his collections from Australia and Ecuador, which included numerous holotypes, knowledge enriched by the respective floras on a large scale and are still standard works, as well as his monograph on the Droseraceae of 1906.

His collections were delivered to the Botanical Museum and the Botanical Garden in Berlin- Dahlem, whose Deputy Director he he was from 1921 to 1945 and Director since 1913. The collections fell in 1943 an air raid by the Allies to the victim.

In 1922 he was elected member of the Learned Society Leopoldina.

After Diels named taxa

In his honor, the following plant species were named:

• Dielsantha E.Wimm. from the family of the bellflower family ( Campanulaceae )
• Dielsia Gilg of the mint family ( Lamiaceae)
• Dielsiocharis OESchulz from the family of cruciferous plants (Brassicaceae )
• Dielsiochloa Pilg. from the family of grasses ( Poaceae )
• Dielsiothamnus REFries from the family of Annonengewächse ( Annonaceae )