Theodor Marsson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German scientist
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Place of Birth: Wolgast, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
About Theodor Marsson
- Theodor Friedrich Marsson (8 November 1816 – 5 February 1892) was a German pharmacist and botanist.
- Marsson was born in Wolgast, Prussian Pomerania, just a year after the Swedish Empire had de-occupied the city, which had been under Swedish control since the Thirty Years' War.
- He was father-in-law to physiologist Leonard Landois (1837–1902). The son of a pharmacist, he studied chemistry under Justus von Liebig (1803–1873) at the University of Giessen.
- After completing his studies he took charge of the pharmacy in his hometown of Wolgast.
- In 1840 he provided necessary information towards the publication of Wilhelm Ludwig Ewald Schmidt's Flora von Pommern und RĂ¼gen (Flora of Pomerania and RĂ¼gen).
- In 1856 he was awarded an honorary PhD from the University of Greifswald.
- In 1869 he published a botanical study on Neuvorpommern and the islands of Usedom and RĂ¼gen titled Flora von Neuvorpommern und den Inseln Usedom und RĂ¼gen. Around 1870 he sold the pharmacy in Wolgast and retired to private life in Greifswald, later relocating to Berlin.
- In retirement he turned to microscopical research, making contributions in the field of palaeontology.
- On the basis of fossils found in chalk deposits at RĂ¼gen he composed works on foraminifera (1878), ostracods and cirripedes (1880).
- In 1887 he published a highly regarded work titled Die Bryozoen der weissen Schreibkreide der Insel RĂ¼gen (Bryozoa of the white chalk of RĂ¼gen).
- Marsson's last scientific activity dealt with living organisms, involving microscopic research of diatoms. The mycological genus Marssonina was named after him by Paul Wilhelm Magnus.
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