Wilhelm Lorch (11 May 1867, in

Marburg Marburg ( or ) is a university town in the German federal state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of the Marburg-Biedenkopf district (''Landkreis''). The town area spreads along the valley of the river Lahn and has a population of approximate ...

– 1954, in

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) was a German bryologist known for his research involving the

anatomy Anatomy () is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things. It is an old science, having its ...

moss Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta (, ) '' sensu stricto''. Bryophyta (''sensu lato'', Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryophytes, which comprise liverworts, mosses, and hor ...

es. He studied botany in

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, receiving his doctorate in 1894 with the thesis "''Beiträge zur Anatomie und Biologie der Laubmoose''". Up until 1932, he worked as a schoolteacher in Marburg and

Selected works

* ''Excursions-Flora der in der Umgebung von Marburg wildwachsenden Pflanzen (Phanerogamen und Pteridophyten)'', 1891 – Botanical excursions in the environs of Marburg (

phanerogam A spermatophyte (; ), also known as phanerogam (taxon Phanerogamae) or phaenogam (taxon Phaenogamae), is any plant that produces seeds, hence the alternative name seed plant. Spermatophytes are a subset of the embryophytes or land plants. They inc ...

s and

pteridophyte A pteridophyte is a vascular plant (with xylem and phloem) that disperses spores. Because pteridophytes produce neither flowers nor seeds, they are sometimes referred to as "cryptogams", meaning that their means of reproduction is hidden. Ferns, ...

s). * ''Beiträge zur Anatomie und Biologie der Laubmoose'', 1894 – Contribution to the anatomy and biology of mosses, (dissertation). * ''Die Polytrichaceen : eine biologische Monographie'', 1908 – Monograph on

Polytrichaceae Polytrichaceae is a common family of mosses. Members of this family tend to be larger than other mosses with a thickened central stem and a rhizome. The leaves have a midrib that bears photosynthetic lamellae on the upper surface. Species in ...

. * ''Die Laubmoose'', 1913 – Mosses. * ''Die Torf- und Lebermoose: die Farnpflanzen (Pteridophyta)'', (second edition 1926); (with Guido Brause and Heinrich Andres) –

Sphagnum ''Sphagnum'' is a genus of approximately 380 accepted species of mosses, commonly known as sphagnum moss, peat moss, also bog moss and quacker moss (although that term is also sometimes used for peat). Accumulations of ''Sphagnum'' can store wa ...

and

liverwort The Marchantiophyta () are a division of non-vascular land plants commonly referred to as hepatics or liverworts. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry only a single set of g ...

Fern A fern (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta ) is a member of a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. The polypodiophytes include all living pteridophytes except t ...

s (Pteridophyta). * ''Anatomie der Laubmoose'', 1931 – Anatomy of mosses.OCLC WorldCat Identities
Most widely held works by Wilhelm Lorch

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lorch, Wilhelm 1867 births 1954 deaths Scientists from Marburg 19th-century German botanists Bryologists 20th-century German botanists