Otto Warburg (botanist)

Otto Warburg ( born July 20, 1859 in Hamburg, † January 10, 1938 in Berlin) was a German botanist and agricultural Zionist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Warblers. ". He was president of the World Zionist Organization

Life

After his graduation in 1879, he studied Natural Sciences ( Botany, Chemistry and Zoology ) in Bonn, Berlin and Strasbourg. In Strasbourg he laid before his 1883 dissertation. In 1885 he undertook a four-year trip to East Asia, which led him among other things to India and Ceylon, in the Dutch colony of Java, China, Korea, Japan, Formosa, and Australia. After his return in 1889 he excited with the acquired on his expeditions hundreds of plants with great interest, held numerous lectures and published articles in professional journals. After completion of the systematization and scientific analysis, he handed his collection in 1893 the Botanical Museum at Berlin.

A tropical botanist, he was a member of various committees of the German Colonial Society and founded in 1896 with Karl and other Supf the Colonial Economic Committee in Berlin. Warburg was a dedicated advocate of applied botany to develop agriculture in the German colonies and prompted this target as required, together with the Bonn-based agricultural scientist Ferdinand Wohltmann the publication of the magazine The tropical planters (from 1897). As an entrepreneur, he participated in the founding of several colonial -public companies, which he partly belonged as the Executive Board and Supervisory Board.

In 1900 followed his turn to Zionism. Together with Franz Oppenheimer and Selig Eugen Soskin he was a member of the Sixth Zionist Congress (Basel 1903) established Commission for the Study of Palestine and editor of the journal Altneuland. As a member of the Commission Warburg was instrumental in the early development initiatives of Palestine, beginning with the call for ' olive tree ' Donation ' ( 1904). Warburg's involvement culminated in 1911 in his election as President of the Zionist Organization.

In 1920, Warburg on behalf of the Zionist Organization of an agricultural experiment station in Rehovot. 1922/23, he campaigned on trips to the United States for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Under his leadership, the originally independent experimental station in 1925 entered into a close relationship with the faculty bio- botanical as Institute of Agriculture and Natural History. After his retirement in 1933 Warburg promoted from Berlin on the university. As chairman (1934-1937) of the Society of Friends of the Jerusalem library, he engaged that book discounts by Jewish families who had to emigrate under the pressure of Nazi persecution, not squandered, but ordered to libraries in Eretz Israel should go.

The Otto founded in 1984 as an Israeli- German joint venture Warburg Minerva Center for Agricultural Biotechnology ( Rehovot / Israel) reminded by his naming of the services Warburg.

Not infrequently, Otto Warburg is confused with the same name, but more widely known Nobel Prize winner Otto Warburg, such as the personnel master data from online library catalogs. Both Warburg were distantly related, but did not know personally, and often mistakenly received the post of the other.

Ehrentaxon

To him, the genus was named Engl Warburgia the plant family of Canellaceae honor.

Writings (selection )

  • About the construction of the wood of Caulotretus heterophyllus. Diss rer. nat. Strasbourg 1883.
  • The nutmeg. Its history, botany, culture, trade and Verwerthung as well as their distortions and surrogates. At the same time a contribution to the cultural history of the Banda Islands. Publisher Engelmann Leipzig 1897.
  • Monsunia. Contributions to the knowledge of the vegetation of the South and East Asian monsoon region. Publisher Engelmann of Leipzig in 1900.
  • The rubber plants and their culture. Berlin 1900.
  • History and development of applied botany. In: Journal of the American Botanical Society Volume 19, 1901, pp. 153-183.
  • Crops in the world economy. Publisher R. Voigtländer Leipzig 1908.
  • The plant world. 3 volumes, Bibliographic Institute Leipzig, reprint 1923
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