Eduard Adolf Wilhelm Jahn (20 May 1871,

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– 23 January 1942, Hann. Münden) was a German biologist and mycologist.

Biography

Jahn studied natural sciences at the

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, especially biology, until he received his doctorate in 1894 under Simon Schwendener. Jahn then passed his teaching qualification and taught in

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at the ' 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 The myxobacteria ("slime bacteria") are a group of bacteria that predominantly live in the soil and feed on insoluble organic substances. The myxobacteria have very large genomes relative to other bacteria, e.g. 9–10 million nucleotides except ...

. 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. In November 1933 Jahn signed the ''Bekenntnis der deutschen Professoren zu Adolf Hitler''. In 1904 Jahn scientifically described the slime mould species '' Stemonitis flavogenita''. In 1906 he published his scientific description of '' Listerella paradoxa'', which is a slime mould

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

from the

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Myxogastria Myxogastria/Myxogastrea (myxogastrids, ICZN) or Myxomycetes ( ICN) is a class of slime molds that contains 5 orders, 14 families, 62 genera, and 888 species. They are colloquially known as the ''plasmodial'' or ''acellula ...

and the only member of its

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, as well as the

family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...

''Listerelliidae''.

Eponyms

The fungal genus '' Jahnula'', circumscribed by

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Selected publications

* (reprinted from ) *

Sources

* 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.Jahn, Eduard Adolf Wilhelm (1871-1942)
at the

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References

Aniko Szabo: ''Vertreibung, Rückkehr, Wiedergutmachung: Göttinger Hochschullehrer im Schatten des Nationalsozialismus'', Wallstein, Göttingen 2000, pp. 487–48
p. 487p. 488
/ref> Lotte Burkhardt 2022: Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen: Von Menschen & ihren Pflanzen – Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin. – , Berlin 2022.

External links

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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

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Zeichnungen von Eduard Jahn aus dem Zoologischen Praktikum, III. Abt., Rep. 18 - Jahn, Eduard
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jahn, Eduard German mycologists German microbiologists Humboldt University of Berlin alumni 1871 births 1942 deaths