Name Hans Kniep | Role Botanist | |
Died November 17, 1930, Berlin, Germany | ||
Karl Johannes Kniep (3 April 1881 - 17 November 1930) was a German botanist who was a native of Jena.
He studied medicine at the University of Kiel, and botany in Jena with Christian Ernst Stahl (1848-1919), where in 1904 he received his doctorate. Afterwards, he worked as an assistant to Robert Hippolyte Chodat (1865-1934) in Geneva, to Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845-1920) at Leipzig, and under Friedrich Oltmanns (1860-1945) in Freiburg. Later, he conducted physiological research of algae in Bergen.
Beginning in 1907, he was a private lecturer at the University of Freiburg, followed by an associate professorship at the University of Strasbourg (1911). In 1914 Kniep became a full professor at the University of Wurzburg, where he was also served as dean of the university (1923–24). In 1924 he succeeded Gottlieb Haberlandt (1854-1945) as professor of plant physiology at the University of Berlin.
Works
Kniep is remembered for studies of sexuality in lower plants, and phytophysiological research involving chemotaxis, photosynthesis and nutrition of marine plants. He performed extensive studies on the cytology and genetics of fungi, especially Basidiomycetes. From 1913 to 1917, he published five treatises on the fungal class Hymenomycetes:
Other significant writings by Kniep include:
With Friedrich Oltmanns, he was editor of the botanical magazine - Zeitschrift fur Botanik.