Theodor Hartig

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 abbrev. (botany) Hartig
Author abbrev. (zoology) Hartig

Theodor Hartig (21 February 1805 – 26 March 1880) was a German forestry biologist and botanist.

Biography

Hartig was born in Dillenburg. He was educated in Berlin (1824–1827), and was successively lecturer and professor of forestry at the University of Berlin (1831–1838) and at the Carolinum, Braunschweig.[1]

Hartig was the first to discover and name the sieve tube element cells (as Siebfasern - sieve fibres and Siebröhren - sieve tubes) in 1837. His zoologist author abbreviation is Hartig. He described many gall wasp species.

He died in Braunschweig.

Works

In collaboration with his father, Georg Ludwig Hartig, he published the work entitled, Forstliches und naturwissenschaftliches Konversationslexikon. The eleventh edition of his father's Lehrbuch für Förster, the later reprints of which he had revised, was published in 1877.

Family

He was the son of Georg Ludwig Hartig (1764–1837), a German forester. His son Robert (1839–1901) was a forestry scientist and mycologist and described the Hartig net, a hyphal network that extends into the plant root.

References

  1.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Moore, F., eds. (1905). "Hartig, Theodor". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
  2. "Author Query for 'Hartig'". International Plant Names Index.