Everything about Eduard Strasburger totally explained
Eduard Adolf Strasburger (
February 1,
1844,
Warsaw –
May 19,
1912 Bonn) was a
Polish-
German professor who was one of the most famous
botanists 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 in
Paris, Bonn and
Jena, receiving a PhD in 1866. In 1868 he taught at the
University of Warsaw. In
1869 he was appointed professor of
botany at the
University of Jena. Since
1881 he was head of the
Botanisches Institut at the
University 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 as
conifers) and
angiosperms (flowering plants), along with demonstrating double-fertilization in angiosperms. He came up with one of the modern laws of plant
cytology: "New cell nuclei can only arise from the division of other nuclei." and originated the terms
cytoplasm and
nucleoplasm.
Together with
Walther Flemming, and
Edouard 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) was Henryk Leon Strasburger, a member of the Polish government in exile during World War II
His great-great-nephew Peter Zika is a noted American botanistFurther Information
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