Johann Jacob Paul Moldenhawer
Johann Jacob Paul Moldenhawer (11 February 1766 – 21 August 1827) was a German
botanist who made a number of important discoveries in plant anatomy
.
He was born in
University of Kiel. He studied plant anatomy from 1795 until 1812, when he published Beyträge zur Anatomie der Pflanzen on his results. Immediately subsequently he concentrated on fruit tree culture. He died in Kiel
.
Moldenhawer's contributions center on the microscopic examination of plant tissues, for which he devised techniques to separate the cells from the middle
stomata were composed pairs of cells, rather than a single cell with a hole. Although Moldenhawer is not credited with the cell theory
, his work provided key documentation for the validity of the theory in plants.
The genus Moldenhawera is named in his honor.
References
- Duane Isely, One hundred and one botanists (Iowa State University Press, 1994), pp. 127–128
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