Reinhold Conrad Muschler

Reinhold Conrad Muschler (also: Reinhold Muschler, Reno Muschler; born August 9, 1882 in Berlin, † December 10, 1957 in Berlin) was a German botanist and writer.

Life

Reinhold Conrad Muschler was the son of a Bavarian chamber singer. After attending a high school in Berlin Reinhold Conrad Muschler traveled extensively in Europe and Africa and began a study of botany. In the years 1902-1906 he spent due to tuberculosis disease each winter in Egypt. There he made the acquaintance of the botanist Georg Schweinfurth and Ascherson Paul who encouraged him to study the flora of Egypt. Muschler studied at the University of Berlin under Adolf Engler; In 1907 he became a Doctor of Philosophy. He then worked as a research assistant at the Botanical Museum in Berlin -Dahlem. Between 1906 and 1914 he published numerous works on botany, in which he described 10 new genera and 380 new species. His main work was the work published in 1912 "A manual flora of Egypt ." Because of this work, it came after the publication of a scandal because Muschler was confronted by his fellow botanist Georg Schweinfurth and Adolf Engler with fraud allegations. A trial of Muschler was canceled due to illness of the accused; However Muschler gave in 1913 his activity in Berlin- Dahlem.

Reinhold Conrad Muschler held up during the First World War in Egypt. After his return to Germany he lived from 1919 as a freelance writer and music critic in Berlin. From 1932 to 1937 Muschler member of the NSDAP; 1933 he had divorced his Jewish wife. After the Nazi seizure of power, he published several works in which he gave expression to his enthusiasm for Adolf Hitler and the new regime, most notably 1933, the youth book " Adolf Hitler, our guide " and 1934 " The German guide book"; both works were in 1946 in the Soviet zone on the " list of proscribed literature." - Musch Jewellers grave is located on the Forest Cemetery in Berlin- Zehlendorf. Since 1914, a genus of the daisy family bears the botanical name " Muschleria ".

Reinhold Conrad Musch Jewellers arisen since the twenties work of fiction includes novels, short stories and biographies. Extremely successful was his 1934 novella " The Unknown " in which the author's fictional life story of the " unknowns from the Seine " told and sold from the back in the thirties, more than 400,000 copies. - Musch Jewellers estate rests in the archives of the Berlin Academy of Arts.

Works

  • Systematic and phytogeographical structure of African Senecio species, Leipzig 1908 ( under the name Reinhold Muschler )
  • Phanerogams, Leipzig 1909 (under the name Reno Muschler, together with Ernst Gilg )
  • A manual flora of Egypt, Berlin (under the name Reno Muschler ) 1 (1912 )
  • 2 (1912 )

Editorship

  • Annette von Droste- Hulshoff: Letters, Leipzig 1928 (along with Levin Schücking )
  • Levin Schücking: Letters, Leipzig 1928 (along with Louise von Gall )
Germans Georg August Schweinfurth Dahlem (Berlin) Children's literature Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf 1920s Biography L'Inconnue de la Seine 1930s Integrated Authority File
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