Nationality German Author abbrev. (zoology) Known for Sieve tube elements Name Theodor Hartig Children Robert Hartig | Influences Georg Ludwig Hartig Parents Georg Ludwig Hartig Fields Botany, Zoology Author abbrev. (botany) Influenced Robert Hartig | |
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Died 1880, Braunschweig, Germany | ||
Influenced by Georg Ludwig Hartig | ||
Theodor Hartig (21 February 1805 – 26 March 1880) was a German forestry biologist and botanist.
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Biography
Hartig was born in Dillenburg. He was educated in Berlin (1824–1827), and was successively lecturer and professor of forestry at the University of Berlin (1831–1838) and at the Carolinum, Braunschweig.
Hartig was the first to discover and name the sieve tube element cells (as Siebfasern - sieve fibres and Siebröhren - sieve tubes) in 1837. His zoologist author abbreviation is Hartig. He described many gall wasp species.
He died in Braunschweig.
Works
In collaboration with his father, Georg Ludwig Hartig, he published the work entitled, Forstliches und naturwissenschaftliches Konversationslexikon. The eleventh edition of his father's Lehrbuch für Förster, the later reprints of which he had revised, was published in 1877.
Family
He was the son of Georg Ludwig Hartig (1764–1837), a German forester. His son Robert (1839–1901) was a forestry scientist and mycologist and described the Hartig net, a hyphal network that extends into the plant root.