Ernst Lemmermann


Ernst Johann Lemmermann was a German botanist who specialized in the field of phycology.
During his career he taught classes in Bremen, where he also worked as a botanical assistant at the Städtisches Museum für Natur-, Völker- und Handelskunde. In Bremen he was an instructor to biologist Friedrich Hustedt, who named the diatom species of Achnanthes lemmermannii in honor of his former teacher in 1933.
He was also honoured in 1942, in Lemmermanniella, which is a genus of cyanobacteria belonging to the family Synechococcaceae, and Lemmermannia which is a genus of fresh water trebouxiophyceans, named in 1904.
Also, the blue-green algae species, Anabaena lemmermannii was named after Lemmermann, now a synonym of Dolichospermum lemmermannii.

Published works

  • Algologische Beiträge , 1898.
  • Ergebnisse einer Reise nach dem Pacific : Plankton-algen, 1899 - Findings from a journey to the Pacific : Plankton-algae.
  • Das Genus Ophiocytium Naegeli, 1899.
  • Flagellatae, Chlorophyceae, Coccosphaerales und Silicoflagellatae in: Nordisches Plankton by Karl Andreas Heinrich Brandt and Carl Apstein - Flagellatae, Chlorophyceae, Coccosphaerales and Silicoflagellatae.
  • Das Plankton schwedischer Gewässer, 1904 - Plankton of Swedish waterways.
  • Pantostomatineae, Protomastiginae, distomatinae, 1914.