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Theodor Hartig, from the Book "Biographien bedeutender hessischer Forstleute", Wiesbaden und Frankfurt am Main 1990, p. 271
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Born | 21 February 1805 Dillenburg |
Died | 26 Märch 1880 Braunschweig |
Nationality | German |
Fields | Forestry science, botany, zoology |
Known for | Sieve tube elements |
Influences | Georg Ludwig Hartig |
Influenced | Robert Hartig |
Author abbreviation (zoology) | Hartig |
Theodor Hartig (born 21 February 1805 in Dillenburg - died 26 Märch 1880 in Braunschweig) was a German forestry biologist and botanist. He was the son of Georg Ludwig Hartig (1764–1837), a German agriculturist. His son Robert (1839–1901) was also a forestry scientist and mycologist and desbribed the Hartig net, a hyphal network that extends into the plant root.
Hartig was the first to discover and name the sieve tube element cells (as Siebfasern - sieve fibres and Siebröhren - sieve tubes) in 1837.
As Hartig described many gall wasp species, his zoologist author abbreviation is Hartig.