- Eduard Strasburger
Eduard Adolf Strasburger (
February 1 ,1844 ,Warsaw –May 19 ,1912 Bonn ) was a Polish-German professor who was one of the most famousbotanist s of the 19th century.He was born in
Warsaw ,Poland , son of Edward Bogumil Strasburger (1803-1874). In 1870 he married Aleksandra Julja Wertheim (1847-1902), and had two children: Anna (b.1870) and Juliusz (1871-1934).Strasburger studied
natural sciences inParis , Bonn andJena , receiving a PhD in 1866. In 1868 he taught at theUniversity of Warsaw . In 1869 he was appointed professor ofbotany at theUniversity of Jena . Since 1881 he was head of the "Botanisches Institut" at theUniversity of Bonn .In botany, his auctorial abbreviation is Strasb.
Accomplishments
Strasburger was a founder of the famous "Lehrbuch der Botanik für Hochschulen" ("Textbook of Botany"), which first appeared in 1894. He was the first to provide an accurate description of the embryonic sac in
gymnosperms (such asconifers ) andangiosperms (flowering plants), along with demonstrating double-fertilization in angiosperms. He came up with one of the modern laws of plantcytology : "New cell nuclei can only arise from the division of other nuclei." and originated the termscytoplasm andnucleoplasm .Together with
Walther Flemming , andEdouard van Beneden he elucidated chromosome distribution during cell division. His work on the upward movement of tree sap proved that the process was physical and not physiological.Bibliography
*"On Cell Formation and Cell Division", 1876 - a book in which he set forth the basic principles of
mitosis *1894 textbook "Textbook of Botany" (written with colleagues)
Trivia
* One of his nephews (by his half-sister Maria-Paulina Strasburger) was
Edward Werner , Polish vice-Finance Minister.
* Another of his nephews (by his half-brother Juljan Teofil Strasburger) wasHenryk Leon Strasburger , a member of thePolish government in exile duringWorld War II
* His great-great-nephewPeter Zika is a noted Americanbotanist References
* [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9069896/Eduard-Adolf-Strasburger "Strasburger, Eduard Adolf"]
Encyclopædia Britannica (1979 ed)
* [http://www.deutsche-botanische-gesellschaft.de/html/047StrasburgerCV.html "Science is in a Constant Flow": Live and Work of Eduard Strasburger (1844-1912)]
* [http://www.elonka.com/public/genealogy/html/d0002/g0000029.html#I1582 Family Tree] maintained by great-great-grandnieceElonka Dunin
*cite book
last = Strasburger
first = Eduard
coauthors =Fritz Noll , Hobart Charles Porter, Heinrich Schenck,Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper
editor = Translated by Hobart Charles Porter
title = A Text-book of Botany
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=qqJuuC_L9yIC
date = 1898
publisher =Macmillan Publishers
pages = 632 pages
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