Nathanael Pringsheim

Nathanael Pringsheim ( born November 30, 1823 in Landsberg, Upper Silesia, † October 6, 1894 in Berlin) was a German botanist and privy councilor. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Pringsh. ".

Life and work

Nathanael Pringsheim came from a well-known Silesian merchant family of Jewish descent, Pringsheim. He married 1851. His wife died in 1893. His daughter Margaret married the chemist Albert Ladenburg from Mannheim.

Prof. Dr. phil. Pringsheim's specialty was the study of algae. He was a lecturer at the University of Berlin in 1851, in 1864 Professor of Botany at the University of Jena and director of the botanical garden. In 1868 he became professor of botany at the University of Berlin again.

On March 29, 1860, he was appointed a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin -Brandenburg, with confirmation from the May 9 On June 30, 1864, he became an honorary member. He was also a founding member of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory. From 1879 he was also a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

In 1882 he founded in Berlin the German Botanical Society (DBG ) and was editor of the Journal scientific botany. The Nathanael Pringsheim Society for the Advancement of the Biological Institute Helgoland eV in Hamburg, was named after him.