Aino Henssen
Aino Marjatta Henssen (born April 12, 1925 in Elberfeld , † August 29, 2011 in Marburg ) was a German lichenologist and professor . Since 1992 she has been the holder of the Acharius Medal , a Swedish award named after Erik Acharius for the life's work of deserved lichens. Your botanical-mycological author's abbreviation is " Henssen ".
Life
Aino Henssen received his doctorate in Marburg in 1953 with a thesis on Lemnaceae . She then worked from 1953 to 1954 at the Institute for Fruit Growing at the University of Bonn . From 1954 to 1956 she made her first studies on actinomycetes at the Institute for Bacteriology in Berlin. In 1956 she worked at the Botanical Institute in Helsinki. From 1957 to 1961 she had a grant from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Helene Lange Foundation and worked on lichen in Uppsala and Marburg . From 1961 to 1963 she received a scholarship from the American Association of University Women and from the Canadian government (working in the USA and Canada). In 1963 she worked as a curator for Kryptogamen at the Botanical Institute in Marburg, where they 1965 in systematic botany habilitation and from 1970 worked as a professor until 1990th Aino Henssen published 100 scientific articles and collected and herbarized around 60,000 species of lichen. She was a co-author of the textbook Lichenes, An Introduction to Lichen Studies .
Her father was Professor Gottfried Henssen and her mother Toini Saraste from Finland.
Web links
- Literature by and about Aino Henssen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Speech on the award of the Acharius Medal with a short biography (English)
- Author entry at the IPNI
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Henssen, Aino |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Henssen (botanical author abbreviation); Henssen, Aino Marjatta (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lichenologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elberfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 29, 2011 |
| Place of death | Marburg |