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Biography - Friedrich Hustedt (1886 - 1968)

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Biography of Friedrich Hustedt

Friedrich Hustedt (1886 - 1968) was a German teacher and botanist, best known for his diatom systematics research.


Fig. 1. Portait of Friedrich Hustedt (1886 - 1968)

He was born and grew up in Bremen, Germany. He taught school for 32 years, in 1924 becoming the head teacher of the school at Hauffstraße in Bremen. Hustedt initially pursued his interest in diatoms as a hobby, but his standing in the scientific community grew rapidly; thus, in 1939 he left school to study diatoms full-time. He described over 2000 diatom taxa and eventually amassed the largest private diatom collection in the world which is currently housed at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany.

The phycological genera Hustedtia and Hustedtiella commemorate his name.

Hustedt occupied his free time with the study of diatoms which he collected mainly from the waters of rivers and estuaries in North Germany. He also collected further afield but samples and preparations came from all over the world, sent to Hustedt by his contemporaries. It remains the largest private collection of diatoms in the world. 

Because of his standing in the science at the time, Hustedt was persuaded to leave school-teaching in 1939 and funded to continue his study of diatoms full-time. In 1963 he sold his collection to the State of Bremen on the understanding that after his death, interested scientists would be able to consult it. Accordingly the "Hustedt-Arbeitsplatz" was established at the Institut für Meeresforschung in Bremerhaven, since 1986 integrated within the AWI.

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Husted diatom study centre

Since 2003, data concerning material, slides and taxa, existing within the Friedrich Hustedt Diatom centre, are being entered in a database. This has been available through the internet since 2004.

In 2014, all data from the initial collection database have been transferred into a new system using the EarthCape platform. The database stores information on all specimens in the collection which were named by Hustedt or deposited later by other workers, along with literature-, material- and slide-information, as well as light and electron microscopic images when available. Taxon names have been entered as they appear on the slides or on a sheet in a slidebox in case of Hustedt's slides, although in some cases, recently proposed names are given under “comments”.

Hustedt Diatom Collection

The Friedrich Hustedt Diatom Study Centre (previously Hustedt Arbeitsplatz für Diatomeenkunde) was founded in 1965 at the Institute for Marine Research Bremerhaven, around Friedrich Hustedt's private diatom collection and library. This collection was the largest private diatom collection at that time, and has, over the decades since, become the core of one of the most important public diatom collections. Several years of work were spent on documenting Hustedt's legacy, ranging from cataloguing entries (sample material, slides and literature) to typification of the around 2000 taxa newly described by Hustedt (resulting in Simonsen's "blue book"). Besides, the collection continuously received additional deposits from renowned diatom researchers, ranging from individual slides (often types) through project based sets of slides to whole personal collections. Two important recent larger additions include a full set of slides from Grethe Hasle's collection including numerous isotypes and Kurt Krammer's practically full sample and slide collection.

The greater part of the collection comprises the fruits of Friedrich Hustedt´s work. He left over 60.000 microscope preparations and over 20.000 samples of material (dried or on glycerin). As a rule, Hustedt made three preparations from each location and filed them in a geographical system. Examples of interesting and newly-described species were placed in a taxonomic system.

Hustedt´s herbarium is being continually added to today and includes the collections of Dr. Reimer Simonsen, Dr. Dietrich König, Prof. Dr. Grethe Hasle and as well as individual preparations of other workers. The collection has now grown to include over 100.000 slides and 50.000 samples of material with an up-to-date library.










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