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Ernst Heinrich


Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer

Died
  
December 3, 1906, Heidelberg, Germany

Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer (born 26 March 1846 in Königsberg, died 3 December 1906 in Heidelberg) was a German botanist who specialised in the taxonomy of the Orchidaceae (orchids).

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Biography

He studied chemistry and botany at Berlin and Königsberg, receiving his PhD in 1867. Afterwards he worked as assistant to Wilhelm Hofmeister in Heidelberg and under Johannes von Hanstein at the University of Bonn, where he obtained his habilitation in 1869. From 1872 to 1906 he was a professor and director of the botanical garden at Heidelberg.

In the first edition of Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, work by Adolf Engler and Carl Prantl, he collaborated about orchids (published in 1889).

In addition to his work involving orchids, he conducted important research of diatoms, publishing the treatise "Untersuchungen über Bau und Entwicklung der Bacillariaceen (Diatomaceen)" (1871) as a result.

Selected works

  • Der Botanische Garten der Universität Heidelberg, 1880 – The botanical garden at the University of Heidelberg.
  • Grundzüge einer vergleichenden morphologie der orchideen, 1882 – Principles on the comparative morphology of orchids.
  • Entwurf einer Natürlichen Anordnung der Orchideen, 1887 – Outline on the natural arrangement of orchids.
  • Orchidaceae-Pleonandrae, 1903 – Orchidaceae-Pleonandrae.
  • Wilhelm Hofmeister, 1903 – biography of Wilhelm Hofmeister.
  • Orchidaceae-Monandrae-Coelogyninae, 1907 (with Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kraenzlin) – Orchidaceae-Monandrae-Coelogyninae.

    • References

    Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer Wikipedia
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