Otto Warburg (botanist)

Not to be confused with Otto Heinrich Warburg, a distant cousin, Nobel Prize Laureate, namesake of the Warburg effect.

Otto Warburg
Otto Warburg, 1911
Born	July 20, 1859(1859-07-20) Hamburg, Germany
Died	January 10, 1938(1938-01-10) (aged 78) Berlin, Germany
Occupation	botanist
Spouse	Anna
Children	Edgar, Michael, Renate, Gustav, Gertrud

Otto Warburg (1859–1938), was a German botanist and industrial agriculture expert, as well as an active member of the Zionist Organization (ZO). From 1911–21, he served as the president of the ZO, which among other things, sought 'for the Jewish people a publicly and legally assured home in Palestine."^[1]

Early life and scientific career

Otto Warburg was born in Hamburg on 20 July 1859 to a family whose ancestors came to Germany in 1566, possibly from Bologna. He completed his studies at the Johanneum Gymnasium in Hamburg in 1879, and continued his education in the field of botany at the University of Bonn which he left after one semester to move to the University of Berlin, and later to University of Strasbourg, where he received his Ph.D in 1883. He went on to study chemistry in Munich and physiology in Tübingen with Wilhelm Pfeffer. In 1885 he embarked on a 4 year expedition to Southern and Southeastern Asia, ending in Australia in 1889. His findings were later (1913–1922) published in three volumes titled Die Pflanzenwelt. Upon his return to Berlin he co founded Der Tropen Pflanzer, a journal specializing in tropical agriculture which he edited for 24 years. Realizing that as a Jew he would not be appointed full professor, he diverted his attentions to applied botanics, and founded several companies of tropical industrial plantations in Germany's colonies.

Taxa named include the Kei Apple (Dovyalis caffra), the pitcher plant Nepenthes treubiana, Virola peruviana, and Cephalosphaera usambarensis.

The standard author abbreviation Warb. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[2]

References

1. ^ JAFI: Zionist Congresses: First Congress - Basle (Basel), 1897
2. ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do. 

External links

• University of Berlin biography
• Otto Warburg Center biography
• Otto Warburg Minerva Center for Agricultural Biotechnology

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Name	Warburg, Otto
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Date of birth	20 July 1859
Place of birth	Hamburg, Germany
Date of death	10 January 1938
Place of death	Berlin, Germany