Theodor Hartig

Theodor Hartig ( * February 21, 1805 Dillenburg, † March 26 1880 Braunschweig ) was a German forest scientists. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Hartig ".

Life and work

Theodor Hartig was the son of forest scientist Georg Ludwig Hartig. After his school days in Berlin he made in 1821, first in Pomerania, and then in the Mark Brandenburg a forestry teaching. Then he studied forestry at the Forest Academy ( 1821 to 1830 in Berlin later Higher forest institute Neustadt- Eberswalde ) and the University of Berlin. After graduating, he became a trainee forest in Potsdam.

From 1831 Hartig lectured at the Berlin Academy of Forestry and published his first scientific work. In 1837 he took over his late father's professorship at the University of Berlin. Since the laying of the Forest Academy was almost completed after Eberswalde, decreased the number of students and his lectures. Hartig moved in 1838 to the Collegium Carolinum in Brunswick, where he was appointed professor of forest science. Shortly after his arrival Hartig founded the arboretum in the book Horst at Riddagshausen. The forest garden was doing the new forestry department of the Collegium Carolinum for scientific purposes, in particular the teaching of Forest Botany and the general forest culture operation.

1839 came his son Robert Hartig to the world, who also was a well-known forest scientist in Braunschweig.

Hartigs depth study of anatomy and physiology of woody plants led to the discovery of the aleurone grains and sieve tubes. Due to his scientific research, Hartig was a member of the Leopoldina. In 1862 he became the co-founder of the Society of Natural Science at Brunswick.

1878 went Hartig for health reasons in retirement and died in 1880 in Braunschweig.

Writings (selection )

• Georg Ludwig Hartig with: Marketing of forest and forestry scientific Conversations -Lexikon: a handbook for anyone who interessirt for the forestry and the related sciences. Naucksche bookstore, Berlin 1834, OCLC 65,277,709th
• The Aderflügler Germany: with particular reference to their larvae state and its activity in forests and gardens for entomologists, forest and garden owners. Haude and Spener, Berlin 1837, OCLC 8119662nd Volume 1: The families of the sawflies and wood wasps, together with a general introduction to the natural history of the Hymenoptera. Haude and Spener, Berlin 1860, OCLC 19,051,050th

• Volume 1: air, soil and plant science in its application to forestry: For friends and caregivers of scientific botany. J. G. Cotta, Stuttgart 1877, OCLC 697,989,379th