26 Facts About Eugenius Warming

Johannes Eugenius Bulow Warming, known as Eugen Warming, was a Danish botanist and a main founding figure of the scientific discipline of ecology.

Eugenius Warming wrote a number of textbooks on botany, plant geography and ecology, which were translated to several languages and were immensely influential at their time and later.

Eugenius Warming married Johanne Margrethe Jespersen on 10 November 1871.

Eugenius Warming attended high school at Ribe Katedralskole and commenced 1859 studies of natural history at the University of Copenhagen, but left university for three-and-a-half year to act as secretary for the Danish palaeontologist Peter Wilhelm Lund, who lived and worked in Lagoa Santa, Brazil.

Eugenius Warming was a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters from 1878 to his death.

Eugenius Warming participated in several Scandinavian Scientist Conferences between 1868 and 1916 and in the similar German meeting in Breslau in 1874.

Eugenius Warming joined the International Botanical Congresses in Amsterdam 1877, in Vienna 1905 and in Brussels 1910 and was president of the 'Association internationale des botanistes'.

Eugenius Warming attended the Linnaeus celebration in Uppsala 1907 and the Darwin celebration in London 1908.

Eugenius Warming was honorary fellow of the Royal Society in London, was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1885 and honorary member of the Danish Botanical Society.

Eugenius Warming was a corresponding member of the botanical section of the French Academy of Sciences.

Eugenius Warming was made Commander 1st Degree of the Order of the Dannebrog, Commander of the Royal Victorian Order and the Brazilian Imperial Order of the Rose.

Eugenius Warming was a skillful and dedicated pedagogue, whose presentation of the subject was useful far beyond his lecture theatre in Copenhagen.

Eugenius Warming wrote a number of botany textbooks for the university level, as well as school books.

Eugenius Warming felt a strong need to take students of botany out of the lecture theatre.

Eugenius Warming used the botanic garden to demonstrate live plants, but to teach plant ecology he needed students to get out in nature.

Eugenius Warming applied to the government and obtained a grant to take students on longer excursions every year from 1893; every third year these went to western Jutland, once to Bornholm, otherwise to Zealand.

Eugenius Warming held a special interest in the family Podostemaceae, with which he had become acquainted during his stay in Brazil.

Eugenius Warming presented a classification based on longevity of the plant, power of vegetative propagation, duration of tillers, hypogeous or epigeous type of shoots, mode of wintering, and degree and mode of branching of rhizomes.

Later, Warming distributed the material family-wise, now ameliorated with collectections made later expeditions and elsewhere in the Arctic, to students, who made further investigations and published the results in English: Warming, E ed.

Similarly, Eugenius Warming's book was decisive in forming the careers of North American naturalists like Henry Chandler Cowles.

Also Frederic Clements was much inspired by Eugenius Warming when starting to working with succession, but more by Oscar Drude in formulating his concept of vegetational climax in his 1916 book.

Eugenius Warming was raised in a Christian Protestant home and he continued to be religious throughout his life.

Eugenius Warming accepted the evolution by descent of living beings, but believed that laws governing planets' orbits and other laws governing organic evolution were God-given.

Eugenius Warming was able to visit his birthplace only a few times in his life because Schleswig was conquered by Prussia and Austria in 1864 and returned to Denmark in 1920.

Eugenius Warming expressed support, in letters, for France in the 1870 Franco-Prussian War.

Eugenius Warming made financial contributions to a secret fund that should support Danish-minded Schleswigian farmers in buying farms and prevent Germanization of Northern Schleswig.