Theodor Hartig

Theodor Hartig

Theodor Hartig, from the Book "Biographien bedeutender hessischer Forstleute", Wiesbaden und Frankfurt am Main 1990, p. 271
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.

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