Johannes Reinke 1849- 1931

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Johannes Reinke 1849- 1931

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• - Johannes Reinke was born in 1849
• in Germany.
• - Got interested in botany when he
• was little.
• - He got instructions from prof.
• Johannes Roeper, a renowned
• botanist of that time.

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• Reinkes first publication was in 1869 - a
  sketchbook of Vegetation of Ratzeburg.
• In 1873 he translated a Danish text on fungi,
  lichens and algae with Griesbach.
• In 1876 he moved to Rostock to study theology. He
  pursued botany afterwards and became professor of
  botany in Gottingen.

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• In 1880 he published a textbook on general botany
  Lehrbuch allgemeinen Botanik
• He established the Institute of Plant Physiology
  in Gottingen.
• He was a broadly interested botanist among which
  he was popular with studies on benthic marine
  algae.

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• He had numerous papers on wide topics of botany.
  Some of which are studies on chlorophyll under
  certain light conditions. He studied a culture of
  volvox with a nitrogen fixing bacteria
  Azotobacter.
• - Also he has published works on marine
  phytoplankton.

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• Reinke got interested in benthic marine algae in
  1874 when he traveled to a beach. He decided to
  study at a station there for sometime.
• In 1875 1876 he studied members of the brown
  algae Dictyotaceae Cutleriaceae and Fucaceae.

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• In his 1878 study of the brown algal
  Cutleriaceae, he described a strong possibility
  that the small Aglaozonia was a stage in the life
  history of Cutleria.
• In 1955 an author credited Reinke with the
  discovery of conjugation by the gametes of brown
  alga Zanardinia.

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• From 1888 1892, Reinke had described several
  new genera in the North and Baltic seas.
• He had also studies in the area of cytology,
  physiology and anatomy of kelps and Sargassum.
• Reinke was also interested in philosophy and
  other disciplines.

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• He wrote a series of books on philosophy
• He wrote on relationship of philosophy and
  religion to science.
• In 1885 he left Gottingen for University of Kiel,
  where he served as professor of botany until
  1921.
• In 1929 he had received numerous honors.
• In his personal life, he had married to Luise
  Racine after the death of his first wife.

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