Alfred Becherer
Alfred Becherer (born August 20, 1897 in Basel , † March 30, 1977 in Lugano ) was a Swiss botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Bech. ".
Life
Becherer, whose ancestors immigrated from Steinach in the Ortenau (then Grand Duchy of Baden) to Basel, where he was granted citizenship in 1900, studied natural sciences and geography at the University of Basel with a doctorate in 1924 after graduating from the humanistic grammar school Dissertation presented in 1925 deals fundamentally with the plant geography of northern Switzerland with special consideration of the flora from the Upper Rhine. After several years as an assistant at the Botanical Gardens in Basel , private assistant to Prof. Gustav Senn (1875-1945), after obtaining the teaching diploma also as a substitute teacher and after a few months of study in England at the Botanical Gardens of Kew , he became in 1929 at the Conservatoire botanique of the city Geneva employed as assistant to Prof. John Briquet , from 1943 he was curator of the herbarium there. From 1934 he taught as a private lecturer at the University of Geneva . In 1957 he retired early and moved to Lugano in Ticino. At the local cantonal museum for natural history he built up the botanical department as curator of the herbarium.
Memberships
- Since 1916 full member of the Swiss Botanical Society
- Since 1920 full member of the Swiss Society for Natural Sciences
- Since 1932 full member of the Valais Society for Natural Sciences La Murithienne
Publications
Becherer was the editor of Bauhinia from 1962 to 1973 . He wrote over 250 scientific articles, including regular reports up to 1976 on the progress made in the systematics and floristry of Swiss flora (vascular plants). His main work is the Florae Vallesiacae Supplementum (1956), intended as a continuation of the Walliser Flora by Henri Jaccard , and a guide through the flora of Switzerland (1972) as a replacement for Hermann Christ's work Das Pflanzenleben , published at the end of the 19th century Switzerland . Also acted Becherer 8 to 16 edition as publisher and editor originally from August Binz written school and Exkursionsflora of Switzerland (standard work in botany classes at Swiss high schools) as well as several editions of Pocket Atlas of Swiss flora of Edouard Thommen .
Honors
In 1967 the Swiss Botanical Society made him its first honorary member. He was also made an honorary member by the Societé botanique de Geneve, the Natural Research Society and the Basel Botanical Society, and the Bavarian Botanical Society made him a corresponding member in 1951. The species epithet of Centaurea poculatoris honors Becherer with its Latinized family name.
Web links
- Short biography at UZH - Zurich Herbaria
- Heinrich Zoller: Becherer, Alfred. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Publications by and about Alfred Becherer in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Author entry for Alfred Becherer at the IPNI
- Memories of Dr. Alfred Becherer , obituary by Aldo Antonietti in: Reports of the Swiss Botanical Society, 87 (1977), pp. 3–4
- Portrait photo by Alfred Becherer
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://m4.ti.ch/dt/da/mcsn/temi/mcsn/il-museo/botanica/presentazione/storia-della-botanica/
- ↑ http://www.botanica-helvetica.ch/d/Portrait/Ehrenlösungen/
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Becherer, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1977 |
| Place of death | Lugano |