Eduard Adolf Wilhelm Jahn (20 May 1871, Berlin – 23 January 1942, Hann. Münden) was a German biologist and mycologist.
Biography
Jahn studied natural sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin, especially biology, until he received his doctorate in 1894 under Simon Schwendener. Jahn then passed his teaching qualification and taught in Berlin-Charlottenburg at the Oberrealschule until 1921. From 1921 to 1938 he was a full professor of botany and mycology at the Forstakademie Hann. Münden (Forest Academy in Hann. Münden). From 1933 until his retirement in 1938, he headed the Institut für Botanik und technische Mykologie (Institute for Botany and Technical Mycology). His specialty was the Myxomycetes, and he also worked on the myxobacteria.[1] His appointment in 1933 was made in opposition to the proposed appointment of the mycologist Richard Falck, who was Jewish and a member of the DDP.[2]
In November 1933 Jahn signed the Bekenntnis der deutschen Professoren zu Adolf Hitler.
In 1904 Jahn scientifically described the slime mould species Stemonitis flavogenita.[3] In 1906 he published his scientific description of Listerella paradoxa, which is a slime mould species from the class Myxogastria and the only member of its genus, as well as the family Listerelliidae.[4][5]
Eponyms
The fungal genus Jahnula, circumscribed by Wilhelm Kirschstein in 1936, is named in honor of Jahn and with it the order Jahnulales.[6]
Selected publications
- Jahn, Eduard (1904). Myxomycetenstudien. Berlin: Gebrüder Borntræger. (reprinted from "Myxomycetenstudien". Berichten der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft. XIX (2). 1901.)
- Jahn, Eduard (1924). Beiträge zur botanischen protistologie. Leipzig: Verlag von Gebrüder Borntraeger.
Source
- Gerhard Wagenitz: Göttinger Biologen 1737–1945: Eine biographisch-bibliographische Liste, Göttingen 1988
The standard author abbreviation E.Jahn may be used to indicate this person when citing a fungal name.[7]
References
- ↑ Genus Jahnella in: List of prokaryotic names with standing in nomenclature
- ↑ Aniko Szabo: Vertreibung, Rückkehr, Wiedergutmachung: Göttinger Hochschullehrer im Schatten des Nationalsozialismus, Wallstein, Göttingen 2000, pp. 487–488 p. 487 p. 488
- ↑ Jahn,Eduard Adolf Wilhelm; Index Fungorum
- ↑ Ramaswamy V, Cresence VM, Rejitha JS, Lekshmi MU, Dharsana KS, Prasad SP, Vijila HM (February 2007). "Listeria – review of epidemiology and pathogenesis" (PDF). Journal of Microbiology, Immunology, and Infection = Wei Mian Yu Gan Ran Za Zhi. 40 (1): 4–13. PMID 17332901. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 March 2020.
- ↑ Michael J. Dykstra, Harold W. Keller: Mycetozoa In: An illustrated guide to the protozoa : organisms traditionally referred to as protozoa, or newly discovered groups, Society of Protozoologists, p. 962, 2000
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt 2022: Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen: Von Menschen & ihren Pflanzen – Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin. – doi:10.3372/epolist2022, Berlin 2022.
- ↑ Jahn, Eduard Adolf Wilhelm (1871-1942) at the IPNI
External links
- Literature by and about Eduard Jahn in the German National Library catalogue
- Jahn, Eduard, Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung des DIPF (The name DIPF Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung is the present name (since 2018) of the Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation'.)
- Archiv zur Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Archive of the History of the Max Planck Society): Zeichnungen von Eduard Jahn aus dem Zoologischen Praktikum, III. Abt., Rep. 18 - Jahn, Eduard
- "Jahn, Eduard Adolf Wilhelm". Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries.