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Eugen Warming (1841-1924)
On November 3, 1841, DanishbotanistEugen Warming was born. Warming is considered a main founding figure of the scientific discipline of ecology.
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He wrote the first textbook on plant ecology in 1895, taught the first university course in ecology and gave the concept its meaning and content.
Early Life and Education
Eugen Warming was born on the small Wadden Sea island of Mandø as the only child of Jens Warming, parish minister, and Anna Marie von Bülow af Plüskow.
After the early death of his father, he moved with his mother to her brother in Vejle in eastern Jutland. Eugen Warming attended the University of Copenhagen. However, he left the university in order to work with the Danish palaeontologist Peter Wilhelm Lund, who worked in Lagoa Santa in Brazil, and travelled with this the tropical savannahs of Brazil.
In 1867 he began studying botany at the University of Munich, from 1871 he studied microscopic methods with Johannes von Hanstein at the Univ