Ernst Münch (26 November 1876 – 9 October 1946) was a German
plant physiologist who proposed the
Pressure Flow Hypothesis in 1930.
He studied in
Aschaffenburg
Aschaffenburg (; South Franconian German, South Franconian: ''Aschebersch'') is a town in northwest Bavaria, Germany. The town of Aschaffenburg is not part of the Aschaffenburg (district), district of Aschaffenburg, but is its administrative sea ...
, and then in
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and ...
with
Robert Hartig
Robert Hartig (born: Heinrich Julius Adolph Robert Hartig, 30 May 1839, in Braunschweig – died 9 October 1901, in Munich) was a German forestry scientist and mycologist.
Biography
He was educated at the Collegium Carolinum of Braunschweig, a ...
. He worked in a number of fields including
forest pathology, resin production, and fungi. He is best known for the phloem pressure flow hypothesis.
Works
* ''Untersuchungen über Immunität und Krankheitsempfänglichkeit der Holzpflanzen'', Dissertation, Ludwigsburg 1909 (doctorate thesis)
* ''Die Stoffbewegungen in der Pflanze'', Jena 1930
* ''Beiträge zur Forstpflanzenzüchtung. Versuche einer Auslesezüchtung durch Einzelstamm-Absaaten bei Fichte. Weitere Beiträge zur Forstpflanzenzüchtung''
us dem wissenschaftlichen Nachlass herausgegeben von Bruno Huber München 1949
Further reading
* E. Höxtermann: ''Ernst Münch''. In: Ilse Jahn (Hrsg.): ''Geschichte der Biologie. Theorien, Methoden, Institutionen, Kurzbiografien''. 3. Auflage, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 2000, S. 909 (Nachdruck Nikol, Hamburg 2004, )
*
Heinrich Rubner: ''Ernst Münch''. In ders.: ''Hundert bedeutende Forstleute Bayerns (1875 bis 1970)''. Mitteilungen aus der Staatsforstverwaltung Bayerns. Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten, München 1994, S. 242–243
20th-century German botanists
1876 births
1946 deaths
German foresters
Plant physiologists
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