Theodor Marsson

Friedrich Theodor Marsson ( born November 8, 1816 in Wolgast, † February 5, 1892 in Berlin) was a German pharmacist and botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " T.Marsson ".

Life and work

Theodor Marsson was the son of Wolgast town pharmacist Aristide Marsson. After school, he attended high school in Wolgast in Stralsund. Connecting he learned the profession of pharmacist in Wolgast, Stralsund and Blankenburg. He studied in Giessen Justus von Liebig in chemistry and put 1841 at the Berlin University be exam in Pharmacy from. In 1844 he took over the Wolgast town pharmacy.

Already during his studies he has been an important material for the 1840 published "Flora of Pomerania and Rügen" by Wilhelm Ludwig Ewald Schmidt. The botanical research he conducted henceforth next to his profession. 1856 Honorary Doctorate of the Ernst- Moritz- Arndt- University Greifswald, he was awarded. He attained with the release of "Flora of Neuvorpommern and the islands of Rügen and Usedom " (1869 ) as a regional naturalist importance.

In 1870 he sold his pharmacy and first moved to Greifswald, later to Berlin. He turned to microscopic studies. Great importance was his paleontological work. Already his work on foraminifera (1878), ostracods and cirripedes (1880 ) found recognition. His article " The Bryozoa of the white chalk of the island of Rügen" (1887 ) is to date the most recent monograph on this group of animals for the Rügen chalk, which treats both large groups of bryozoans, Cheilostomata and Cyclostomata together. The article "Revision of 1839-1850 published by F. von Hagenow from the chalk of Rügen bryozoans " (1959) by Ehrhard Voigt is not to be construed according to declaration of the author as a monograph. His last work, which dealt with the diatoms, he could not accomplish.

His herbarium went to the University of Greifswald, where it still accounts for a significant part of the herbarium collection and you can see the evidence of his scientific creativity in the Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology.

His daughter Clara Helene married the German physiologist Leonard Landois.