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Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming (3 November 1841 – 2 April 1924), known as Eugen Warming, was a Danish botanist and a main founding figure of the scientific discipline of ecology. Warming wrote the first textbook (1895) on plant ecology, taught the first
Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming (born Nov. 3, 1841, Manø, Den.—died April 2, 1924, Copenhagen) was a Danish botanist whose work on the relations between living plants and their surroundings made him a founder of plant ecology.
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Eugen Warming was born on the small Wadden Sea island of Mandø as the only child of Jens Warming, parish minister, and Anna Marie von Bülow af Plüskow. After the early death of his father, he moved with his mother to her brother in Vejle in eastern Jutland. Eugen Warming attended the University of Copenhagen. However, he left the university in orde...
Eugen Warming became docent of botany at the University of Copenhagen, the polytechnic, and the Pharmaceutical College. In 1882 he was appointed professor of botany at Stockholms högskola.As the eldest professor, he was elected rector magnificus. In 1885 Warming was appointed professor of botany at the University of Copenhagen and director of the C...
Warming’s early experience with vegetation in a tropical region was decisive for his future work. His collections from Lagoa Santa, 2600 plant species, of which some 370 turned out to be new to science, were treated in a monumental 40-volume and 1400-page work,Symbolæ ad Floram Brasiliæ centralis cognoscendam. For this work, Warming farmed out plan...
Eugen Warming became known as a great teacher, whose presentation of the subject was useful far beyond his lecture theatre in Copenhagen. In order to improve his teaching, Warming took his students to the botanical garden. However, to teach plant ecology, Warming figured that he needed his students to get out in nature. He applied for a grant to ta...
Jun 9, 2023 · Although often overlooked, the Danish botanist Eugen Warming was one the founders of ecology as a science. He also wrote extensively on plant life forms, including an essay from 1918, Om Jordudløbere (‘Underground runners'), which specifically focused on clonal plants.
May 17, 2018 · Warming, Johannes Eugenius Bülow (1841–1924) A Danish botanist whose work laid the foundations for and greatly stimulated the study of modern plant ecology. He maintained that plant communities should be studied in relation to their surroundings and developed a basis for their classification.
Overview. Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming. (1841—1924) Quick Reference. (1841–1924) A Danish botanist whose work laid the foundations for and greatly stimulated the study of modern plant ecology. He maintained that plant communities should be studied in relation to their surroundings and developed a basis for their classification.
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Jul 9, 2023 · Eugenius Warming's 'A Handbook of Systematic Botany' is a comprehensive guide to the study of plant taxonomy and classification. Written in a clear and accessible style,...
