Andreas spokesman for Bernegg

Andreas spokesman von Bernegg (born October 15, 1871 in Grabs ( Switzerland ), † August 13, 1951 in Zurich ) was a Swiss crop scientist and author of important handbooks on tropical and subtropical world crops. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " spokesman ".

Life

Andreas Sprecher von Bernegg studied botany and received his doctorate in 1907 from the ETH Zurich with a widely acclaimed dissertation on ginkgo ( Ginkgo biloba ). He then worked at the Swiss Federal Agricultural Research Institute in Zurich and since 1912 he worked at a newly established agricultural research station for tobacco and rubber in Besuki on the island of Java . After his return to Switzerland in 1916, he advocated holding courses on tropical agriculture at the agricultural department of the ETH Zurich. In 1923 he received a teaching position for tropical agriculture , which he held until 1941.

During this time, Andreas Sprecher also headed a laboratory for tropical and subtropical crops at the Institute for Plant Physiology at this university. He was a member of the Tropical and Sub-Tropical Agriculture Commission of the International Agricultural Institute in Rome. In 1926 he was appointed titular professor . Andreas spokesman made a name for himself in the professional world above all as the author of outstanding monographs on tropical and subtropical world economic plants.

Fonts

• Tropical and subtropical world economic plants - their history, culture and economic significance . 3 parts, published by Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1929–1936. Part 1: Starch and Sugar Plants (1929); Part 2: Oil plants (1929); Part 3, Plants Volume 1: Cocoa and Kola (1934); Volume 2: Coffee and Guaraná (1934); Volume 3: The Tea Bush and Tea. The mate and Paraguay tea plant (1936).

literature

• AF: Prof. Andreas Sprecher 1871–1951 †. In: Swiss Agricultural Monthly Bullets. Vol. 29, 1951, p. 289.

Web links

• Author entry and list of the plant names described for Andreas Sprecher von Bernegg at the IPNI