Eugen Warming | |
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| Born | 3 November 1841 Mandø, Denmark |
| Died | 2 April 1924 (aged 82) Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Nationality | Danish |
| Known for | founding ecology plant life forms tropical botany |
| Awards | Commander 1st Degree of the Order of the Dannebrog Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Imperial Order of the Rose Erzherzog Rainer-Medaille, Kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien (1911) Great Linnean Medal in Gold, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1922) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Ecology |
| Institutions | University of Copenhagen |
| Doctoral students | Christen C. Raunkiær Wilhelm Johannsen Frederik Børgesen Morten Porsild Johannes Schmidt Olaf Hagerup Henning Eiler Petersen Carl Hansen Ostenfeld Ove Paulsen |
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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 university course in ecology and gave the concept its meaning and content. Scholar R. J. Goodland wrote in 1975: “If one individual can be singled out to be honoured as the founder of ecology, Warming should gain precedence”.[1][2]
Warming wrote a number of textbooks on botany, plant geography and ecology, which were translated to several languages and were immensely influential at their time and later. Most important were Plantesamfund and Haandbog i den systematiske Botanik.
- ^ Goodland, R.J. (1975) The tropical origin of ecology: Eugen Warming’s jubilee. Oikos, 26, 240-245.
- ^ Goodland, R. J. (17 May 1975). "The Tropical Origin of Ecology: Eugen Warming's Jubilee". Oikos. 26 (2): 240–245. doi:10.2307/3543715. JSTOR 3543715.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Warm.