BRIEFER ARTICLES 
HELMUT BRUCHMANN 
(WITH PORTRAIT) 
The name of BrRuCHMANN has become so familiar through his inde- 
fatigable researches upon the prothallia of temperate species of Lyco- 
podium, that some account of his life should appear in this journal, 
which has so often paid the last tribute of respect to great botanists. 
Hetmut BRuCHMANN was born in Pomerania, Prussia, on Novem- 
ber 13, 1847, and death came suddenly at Gotha on Christmas 10920. 
After the usual studies in loca 
schools, he went to Jena, where 
STRASBURGER was beginning his 
great career as a teacher, investi- 
gator, and maker of investigators. 
Although I cannot find any 
authoritative data, it is my recol- 
lection that SrrasBuRGER himself 
told me that BRUCHMANN was the 
first man to take the Ph.D. degree 
under his direction, and that the 
highest esteem and made him his 
assistant. Like STRASBURGER, he 
was a master of technique, making 
splendid sections before the days of 
paraffin and microtomes. In 1878, 
at the age of 29, he went to 
Tharand to deliver a course of lectures on forestry; and a year later 
was called to Gotha as teacher of mathematics and physics, and afterward 
biology, in the high school. STRASBURGER offered him an “ausser- 
ordentlich”’ professorship at Jena, but the stipend attached to that 
position at that time was so small that he felt compelled to remain at 
Gotha, with the comparatively comfortable salary of 2400 marks. 
Since BRUCHMANN married Friulein Emma Jusatz in 1880, one might 
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