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Warming, Johannes Eugenius Bülow (1841-1924)
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
THE death on April 2 of Dr. Eugene Warming, emeritus professor of botany of the University of Copenhagen, marked the passing away of a vigorous force in Danish botany, and of a pioneer who influenced botany over the whole world. In the latest edition of Warming's ecological text-book (1918) references are given to about 2000 papers and monographs, and it is safe to say that the larger half of these were inspired or influenced by him.
Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming (November 3, 1841 – April 2, 1924), known as Eugen Warming, was a Danish botanist and a main founding figure of the scientific discipline of ecology. Warming wrote the first textbook (1895) on plant ecology, taught the first university course in ecology and gave the concept its meaning and content. “If one individual can be singled out to be honoured as the founder of ecology, Warming should gain precedence”.
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. Most important were Plantesamfund and Haandbog i den systematiske Botanik