Sankt Ingbert
St. Ingbert (also ''Sankt Ingbert''; pfl, Dingmert or ''Dimbert'') is a town in the Saarpfalz district in Saarland, Germany with a population of 35,213 (2020). It is situated approximately 10 km north-east of Saarbrücken and 10 km so ...
– 20 January 1974 in
Wuppertal
Wuppertal (; "''Wupper Dale''") is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities and to ...
) was a German chemist and
botanist
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. In collaboration with Richard Kräusel, he carried out significant
paleobotanical
Paleobotany, which is also spelled as palaeobotany, is the branch of botany dealing with the recovery and identification of plant remains from geological contexts, and their use for the biological reconstruction of past environments (paleogeogr ...
investigations of
Devonian
The Devonian ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the Silurian, million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Carboniferous, Mya. It is named after Devon, England, whe ...
flora.
He obtained his education at the
University of Jena
The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (german: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany.
The un ...
, receiving his doctorate in 1912 under the direction of
Christian Ernst Stahl
Christian Ernst Stahl (21 June 1848 – 3 December 1919) was a German botanist who was a native of Schiltigheim, Alsace.
Academic career
He studied botany at the University of Strasbourg with Pierre-Marie-Alexis Millardet (1838-1902), and at ...
. Following graduation, he worked as assistant to Wilhelm Pfeffer at the
University of Leipzig
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and under
Ludwig Knorr
Ludwig Knorr (2 December 1859 – 4 June 1921) was a German chemist. Together with Carl Paal, he discovered the Paal–Knorr synthesis, and the Knorr quinoline synthesis and Knorr pyrrole synthesis are also named after him. The synthesis in 18 ...
in Jena. From 1915 to 1952 he worked as a chemist at
Bayer
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in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, being named head of its physiology laboratory in 1924. In 1931 he became an honorary professor at the
University of Cologne
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, where in 1945–48 he served as interim director of the botanical institute.BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
For a period of time, he served as chairman of the ''Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein Wuppertal''. The fossil genus ''Weylandites'' commemorates his name.
Selected works
* ''Zur Ernährungsphysiologie mykotropher Pflanzen'', 1912 – On the
nutrition physiology
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of mycotrophic plants.
* ''Beiträge zur kenntnis der Devonflora'' (with Richard Kräusel, 1923) – Contributions to the knowledge of Devonian flora.
* ''Die Flora des deutschen Unterdevons'' (with Richard Kräusel, 1930) – Flora of the German
Lower Devonian
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.
* ''Beiträge zur Kenntis der rheinischen Tertiärflora'', 1934 – Contributions to the knowledge of Rhenish
Tertiary
Tertiary ( ) is a widely used but obsolete term for the geologic period from 66 million to 2.6 million years ago.
The period began with the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, at the start ...
flora.
* ''Beiträge zur Kenntnis der rheinischen Tertiärflora / 1 Floren aus den Kieseloolith- und Braunkohlenschichten der niederrheinischen Bucht.'', 1934 – Contributions to Rhenish Tertiary flora / Flora from the Kieseloolith and
lignite
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layers of the
Lower Rhine
The Lower Rhine (german: Niederrhein; kilometres 660 to 1,033 of the river Rhine) flows from Bonn, Germany, to the North Sea at Hook of Holland, Netherlands (including the Nederrijn or "Nether Rhine" within the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta); al ...
.
* ''Neue Pflanzenfunde im Mitteldevon von Elberfeld'' (with Richard Kräusel, 1938) – New plant discoveries in the Middle Devonian at Elberfeld.
* ''Lehrbuch der Paläobotanik'' (with
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