Ludwig Jost

Ludwig Jost ( born November 13, 1865 in Karlsruhe, † February 22, 1947 ) was a German botanist and university professor.

Life and work

After attending high school in Karlsruhe Jost studied natural sciences at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg and from 1885 at the Kaiser- Wilhelms- University of Strasbourg. For Dr. phil. doctorate, he remained 33 years in the capital of the Empire State Alsace -Lorraine. 1916/17, in the First World War, he was rector of the University of Strasbourg. How many German university teachers after the Armistice of Compiègne (1918 ) reported from the Third French Republic, he went to Heidelberg.

Jost's main area of ​​work was the plant physiology. At the " Strasbourg ", the standard reference work for students botany, he worked for many years with ( 10th to 16th edition, 1909-1923 ).

Works

• Tree and forest. J. Springer, Berlin 1936; Second, by popular edition of Fritz Overbeck. Springer, Berlin / Gottingen / Heidelberg, 1952 ( Quantum Leap, Vol 29, Natural Sciences Series)
• The emergence of the great discoveries in botany. . Speech at the Empire celebration on January 18, 1930 Carl Winter [ Exit], Heidelberg 1930 ( University of Heidelberg speeches; 9)
• For the hundredth birthday Anton de Barys. Life's work of a botanist of the 19th century. G. Fischer, Jena 1930 ( From: Journal of Botany, Vol 24)
• With Gerta of Ubisch: To winds question. W. de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1926
• Leader through the botanical garden in Heidelberg. Heidelberg 1922 [ description of the contemporary state of the garden in the Neuenheimer Feld ]
• Lectures on plant physiology. Fischer, Jena 1913