Max Hollrung

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Max Hollrung
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August 1926 at the Fourth International Botanical Congress, Cornell University
Born
Max Udo Hollrung

25 October 1858
Hosterwitz, Dresden
Died5 May 1937(1937-05-05) (aged 78)
NationalityGerman
Scientific career
Fields Botany, plant pathology
Author abbrev. (botany) Hollrung

Max Udo Hollrung (born 25 October 1858 in Hosterwitz, Dresden, died 5 May 1937 in Halle (Saale)) was a German botanist, and an early specialist in phytopathology. He was the first university teacher in Germany to be appointed to teach on the subject of plant diseases and plant protection at a university. The standard author abbreviation Hollrung is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name . [1]

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Life and work

Hollrung was the son of a master mason. He studied natural sciences, in particular, chemistry, acquiring his doctorate from the University of Leipzig in 1882. After a three-year assistantship at the Agriculture-Chemical Experimental Station in Halle (Saale), he participated in a research expedition to New Guinea from 1886 to 1888. At his return, Julius Kühn transferred him to the Agricultural Institute of the University of Halle, to work in the newly established Research Center for Nematode Control. From 1898 Hollrung was head of the experimental station for crop protection of the Chamber of Agriculture of the province of Saxony in Halle / Saale. From 1898, he was head of the Plant Health Experimental Station of the Chamber of the Province of Saxony, in Halle. In 1905, he edited "Lektorat für Pflanzenkrankheiten" ("Diseases of plants") at the University of Halle, and worked there until 1930.

He promoted the development of plant pathology, notably through his "Handbook of Chemicals for the Control of Plant Diseases" (first edition 1898) and his "Annual Reports on Innovations and Benefits in the Field of Plant Diseases" (1898–1913). Hollrung was head of the first research center in the field of crop protection and the first full-time university teacher for this field in Germany. As a researcher, he played a significant role in the examination of copper salts as a plant protection product, in the study of diseases of grapevine and potato. Throughout his life he looked for ways to practise preventive crop protection, especially with arable and organic farming. Many of his attempts to develop biological plant protection measures were acknowledged only after his death.

Honours

Some species named for him

Some publications

Notes

  1. International Plant Names Index.  Hollrung.
  2. Govaerts, R. et al. (2017) Plants of the world online: Mallotus hollrungianus K.Schum. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  3. Govaerts, R. et al. (2017) Plants of the world online: Dendrobium smillieae F.Muell. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 28 February 2019.

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