Robert Hartig

Robert Hartig

Robert Hartig

Robert Hartig, from the book by Otto Dittmar et al. Adam Schwappach. Ein Forstwissenschaftler und sein Erbe. Hanstedt 2001, S. 47
Born 30 May 1839
Braunschweig
Died 9 October 1901(1901-10-09) (aged 62)
Munich
Nationality German
Doctoral students Heinrich Mayr, Carl von Tubeuf
Known for Hartig net
Author abbrev. (botany) R.Hartig
Teachers of the school of forestry in Neustadt-Eberswalde around 1868 (from left): Robert Hartig (with Peter Danckelmann in his arms), unknown, Julius Theodor Christian Ratzeburg, Bernhard Danckelmann, Adolf Remelé, Wilhelm Schneider and Wilhelm Schütze

Robert Hartig (born: Heinrich Julius Adolph Robert Hartig, 30 May 1839, in Braunschweig – died 9 October 1901, in Munich) was a German forestry scientist and mycologist.

Biography

He was educated at the Collegium Carolinum of Braunschweig, and at Berlin. In 1878 he was appointed professor of botany at Munich. Hartig made significant contributions to knowledge of vegetable pathology. Prior to his investigations on the progressive stages of disease in trees, little or nothing had been done in this area, so that Hartig may be considered the founder of arboreal pathology.[1]

Hartig worked in Eberswalde (1867–1878) and Munich (1878–1901), mainly in forest pathology. He described the Hartig net, a hyphal network that extends into the plant root.

Works

  • Lehrbuch der Baumkrankheiten, 2., verb. und vermehrte Auflage, Berlin 1889.
  • 2nd ed. translated into English by William Somerville and H. Marshall Ward as Diseases of Trees, London 1894
  • Lehrbuch der Pflanzenkrankheiten. Für Botaniker, Forstleute, Landwirthe und Gärtner, 3., völlig neu bearbeitete Auflage des Lehrbuches der Baumkrankheiten, Berlin 1900.
  • 2nd ed.: Der echte Hausschwamm und andere das Bauholz zerstörende Pilze, 2. Aufl., bearbeitet und herausgegeben von Dr. C. Freiherr von Tubeuf, Berlin 1902.

Family

He was the son of Theodor Hartig (1805–1880) and grandson of Georg Ludwig Hartig (1764–1837).

See also

References

  1.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Hartig, Robert". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
  2. IPNI.  R.Hartig.
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