Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde (30 June 1873, Breslau (now

Wrocław Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, rou ...

) – 14 March 1942, Berlin-Dahlem) was a German botanist.

Biography

Fedde studied natural sciences, commencing in 1892 and graduating in 1896 in Breslau. He was a teacher in schools of higher learning in Breslau, Tarnowitz and Berlin. He became an associate at the Berlin Botanical Museum in 1901 and a professor there in 1912. He participated in several collecting trips to the Mediterranean, Finland and South Russia. Fedde's main work dealt with

plant systematics The history of plant systematics—the biological classification of plants—stretches from the work of ancient Greek to modern evolutionary biologists. As a field of science, plant systematics came into being only slowly, early plant lo ...

and biogeography. His renown rests mainly on the publication of the ''Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis'' and its ''Beihefte'' for longer monographs. The genus '' Feddea'' (

Asteraceae The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...

) Urb. was named in his honor.

Publications

Extensive bibliography at WorldCat

References

* NATHO, G., 1998 ''Zur Erinnerung an Friedrich Fedde (1873-1942).'' Fedde Rep. 109:473-477.

External links

* ''Repertorium specierum novarum regni vegetabilis'' at the Biodiversity Heritage Librar

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fedde, Friedrich Karl Georg 1873 births 1942 deaths German taxonomists German phytogeographers Scientists from Wrocław People from the Province of Silesia