Johannes Reinke

- Johannes Reinke was born in 1849 in Germany. - Got interested in botany when he was little. - He got instructions from prof. Johannes Roeper, a renowned botanist of that time.

- Reinke’s first publication was in a sketchbook of Vegetation of Ratzeburg. - In 1873 he translated a Danish text on fungi, lichens and algae with Griesbach. - In 1876 he moved to Rostock to study theology. He pursued botany afterwards and became professor of botany in Gottingen.

- In 1880 he published a textbook on general botany “Lehrbuch allgemeinen Botanik” - He established the Institute of Plant Physiology in Gottingen. - He was a broadly interested botanist among which he was popular with studies on benthic marine algae.

- He had numerous papers on wide topics of botany. Some of which are studies on chlorophyll under certain light conditions. He studied a culture of volvox with a nitrogen fixing bacteria Azotobacter. - Also he has published works on marine phytoplankton.

- Reinke got interested in benthic marine algae in 1874 when he traveled to a beach. He decided to study at a station there for sometime. - In 1875 – 1876 he studied members of the brown algae Dictyotaceae Cutleriaceae and Fucaceae.

- In his 1878 study of the brown algal Cutleriaceae, he described a strong possibility that the small Aglaozonia was a stage in the life history of Cutleria. - In 1955 an author credited Reinke with the discovery of conjugation by the gametes of brown alga Zanardinia.

- From 1888 – 1892, Reinke had described several new genera in the North and Baltic seas. - He had also studies in the area of cytology, physiology and anatomy of kelps and Sargassum. - Reinke was also interested in philosophy and other disciplines.

- He wrote a series of books on philosophy - He wrote on relationship of philosophy and religion to science. - In 1885 he left Gottingen for University of Kiel, where he served as professor of botany until In 1929 he had received numerous honors. - In his personal life, he had married to Luise Racine after the death of his first wife.

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