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Gustav Maass

Gustav Maass is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Gustav Maass rather than just read about it. In short: Gustav Friedrich Hermann Maass (2 December 1830 – 28 April 1901) was a German botanist who was a native of Brandenburg an der Havel. In 1848, he became an assistant to agriculturalist Hermann von Nathusius (1809–1879); further, from late 1849, he spent twelve-plus years in the military as an artilleryman in the 3rd Brandenburg Artillery Brigade, as a Brigadeschule instructor at Magdeburg and as an assistant to the b…

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Reference excerpt

Gustav Friedrich Hermann Maass (2 December 1830 – 28 April 1901) was a German botanist who was a native of Brandenburg an der Havel. In 1848, he became an assistant to agriculturalist Hermann von Nathusius (1809–1879); further, from late 1849, he spent twelve-plus years in the military as an artilleryman in the 3rd Brandenburg Artillery Brigade, as a Brigadeschule instructor at Magdeburg and as an assistant to the brigade staff in Berlin. In 1862, he became a manager in the Magdeburgischen Land-Feuer-Societät in Altenhausen, a position he maintained until his death in 1901. In 1866, Maass was co-founder of the Walbeck "Aller Association", and was its chairman from 1874 to 1896. Within this association, he carried out extensive studies of flora found in areas surrounding the Ohre and Aller Rivers. With Paul Ascherson (1834–1913) and Ludwig Schneider (1809–1889), he took part in extended botanical excursions. Results from these field studies were incorporated into Schneider's book Flora von Magdeburg. Maass is credited with discovering several new species of blackberry, and for providing assistance to Wilhelm Olbers Focke (1834–1922) with the latter's 1877 treatise Synopsis Ruborum Germaniae. Also, the botanical species Rubus maassii is named in Maass' honor. Increasingly, from the mid-1880s, he combined his botanical trips with historical research, in particular investigations of megaliths and other prehistoric monuments, as well as studies of ancient villages and forts.

Publications Rubus glaucovirens. Eine neue Magdeburgische Brombeere, in Abhandlungen des Botanischen Vereins der Provinz Brandenburg, 162ff., 1870 – "Rubus glaucovirens". A new blackberry of Magdeburg. Die Wüstungen des Kreises Neuhaldensleben, 1899 – The deserted villages of the district Neuhaldensleben.

References

This article is based on a translation of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.

Illustrations

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Gustav Maass

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Gustav Maass claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Gustav Maass before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Gustav Maass ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Gustav Maass

In research: Gustav Maass appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Gustav Maass in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Gustav Maass is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1830 births, 1901 deaths, 19th-century German botanists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Gustav Maass outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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