Max Hirmer (1893-1981)
was a German botanist, publisher and photographer.
Hirmer was born on 14 April 1893 in Straubing. After graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1913, he studied archaeology, art history and natural sciences. Hirmer received his doctorate from the
University of Munich
The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich, LMU or LMU Munich; ) is a public university, public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke ...
in 1917 and his habilitation in 1922. He was an adjunct professor in Munich from 1928
but was dismissed by the Nazis in 1936 for political reasons.
Hirmer died on 17 April 1981, 88 years old.
Hirmer wrote a number of works of botany including a book and many articles on
phyllotaxis
In botany, phyllotaxis () or phyllotaxy is the arrangement of leaf, leaves on a plant stem. Phyllotactic spirals form a distinctive class of patterns in nature.
Leaf arrangement
The basic leaf#Arrangement on the stem, arrangements of leaves ...
.
As a photographer, Hirmer worked mainly in the field of art and archeology. In 1948 he, together with his wife Aenne (1912-2017),
founded
the ''Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliches Lichtbild'', or ''Society for the Scientific Photographic Image''. This became the
Hirmer-Verlag publishing house, which published numerous art studies and illustrated books. Hirmer's own books published with the firm included ''Ägypten. Architektur, Plastik, Malerei in drei Jahrtausenden'' (''Egypt: Three Millennia of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting'') for which he provided the photographs.
Selected works
* ''Zur Lösung des Problems der Blattstellungen'', 1922.
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* With
Eberhard Otto Eberhard Otto may refer to:
* Eberhard Otto (Egyptologist)
* Eberhard Otto (politician)
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and
Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt: ''Ägypten: Architektur, Plastik, Malerei in drei Jahrtausenden.'', 1955; vierte neu bearbeitete und sehr erweiterte Auflage, Hirmer, München 1967; republished as ''Ägyptische Kunst.'', Taschenbuch, München 1971, and .
References
External links
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Hirmer Verlag
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1893 births
1981 deaths
20th-century German botanists
People from Straubing