Hugo Miehe


Hugo Robert Heinrich August Miehe was a German botanist.
He studied botany at the universities of Göttingen, Munich and Bonn, and in 1903 qualified as a lecturer of botany at the University of Leipzig. From 1908 to 1916 he was an associate professor at Leipzig, during which time, he was involved in botanical research at Buitenzorg in Java, publishing "Javanische Studien" as a result. From 1916 to 1932 he was a professor of botany at the Agricultural University of Berlin, where he was also director of the Institute of Botany and Agriculture.

Published works

In 1907 he published "Die Selbsterhitzung des heus: eine biologische Studie", in which he demonstrated that the phenomenon of "self-heating hay" was due to bacterial action. The following is a list of his noteworthy written efforts: