Paul Graebner

Karl Otto Robert Peter Paul Graebner ( born June 29, 1871 in Aplerbeck; † February 6, 1933 in Berlin) was a German botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Graebn. ".

Life

After school he studied and received a doctorate in phil. In the 1890s he botanized among other Jerichower country and Vorharzgebiet together with Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, with whom he also published his seminal work on the Central European flora.

Later he became a professor at the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin- Dahlem and addressed in his research, in particular with the plant geography of central Germany.

In addition to his teaching and research activities, he was also also author or co-author and editor or co-editor of numerous botanical reference books such as the named after Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming textbook of ecological plant geography (1918, 3rd Edition ) Paperback for plants Identify (1918, 10. edition 1924), the phytogeographical relationships of Bialowies (1918 ), Guide to a tour of the outdoor facilities of the Botanical Garden of the University of Berlin, Berlin -Dahlem (1919), textbook of non-parasitic plant diseases (1920), Handbook of plant Diseases. Volume 1 The non-parasitic diseases (1921, co-editor Gustav Lindau), Handbook of Plant Diseases. Volume 2 The veg. Parasites ( Part 1) (1921, co-editor G. Lindau), Handbook of Plant Diseases. Volume 3 The vegetable parasites ( Part 2) (1923, co-editor G. Lindau), Contributions to the flora of the jungle of Bialowies (1925 ), The Heath in northern Germany and the subsequent formations in biological observation (1925, co-authors of Fritz Graebner, Friedrich Erdmann ), textbook of general plant geography (1929 ) and textbook of ecological plant geography ( 1930-1933 ).

Graebner was laid to rest in the cemetery park lights field, right next to his friend and patron Paul Ascherson. His son Paul was also a botanist who dealt with the flora of Westphalia.