Hermann Dingler

He was a son-in-law of chemist Emil Erlenmeyer and the father of philosopher Hugo Dingler.

Afterwards, he spent a few years working as a military and railway physician in the Turkish service.

In 1883 he obtained his habilitation at Munich, then from 1889 to 1910, he taught classes in botany at the Forestry University in Aschaffenburg.

[1] While an instructor at Aschaffenburg and afterwards, he conducted lengthy research trips to Asia Minor (1892), Ceylon (1909), Sicily (1912) and the Caucasus (1914).

In 1907 he founded a district committee for nature conservation in western Lower Franconia — his main focus was towards the establishment of a reserve for oak trees in Spessart.