Anna Medwecka-Kornaś

Anna Medwecka-Kornaś (born August 28, 1923 in Krakow , Poland ) is a Polish botanist . Your botanical author abbreviation is " Medw.-Kornaś ".

Career

Anna Medwecka-Kornaś was born as the daughter of the lawyer Wiktor Medwecki and the doctorate in geologist and teacher Maria Medwecka, b. Bieganska was born. She attended elementary school in Cracow from 1930 to 1936 and then moved to a higher school for girls . Due to the German occupation during the Second World War , she was no longer able to continue teaching at the secondary school for girls and instead attended secret classes . So she got the higher education entrance qualification in the year 1942. From the year 1943 she took underground university courses, which were offered at the Jagiellonian University . Anna Medwecka decided to study natural sciences and received her diploma in 1946. She married Jan Kornaś , with whom she worked on several projects.

Anna Medwecka-Kornaś worked from 1945 to 1947 at the Forest Science Institute in the Forest Protection Department . From 1947 she started working at the Jagiellonian University. She worked there from 1947 to 1950 as a junior assistant. She received her doctorate in 1950. Her doctoral thesis dealt with the plant community of the Swiss Jura . She then became a senior assistant at the university and from 1956 a lecturer. In 1962 Anna Medwecka-Kornaś moved to the Institute of Botany of the Polish Academy of Sciences . From 1963 to 1969 she was in charge of the nature conservation department. In 1973 she moved to the Jagiellonian University. There she was in charge of the newly established plant ecology department of the botany department. In 1980 she was appointed full professor . She continued her scientific work at the Institute of Botany at the University of Krakow.

Act

Anna Medwecka-Kornaś's scientific interest lay in the field of plant sociology . Here she was mainly concerned with aspects of ecology , nature conservation and plant geography . She conducted several studies in Poland, Canada and Africa. She published the results of her research in the form of specialist articles, reviews and popular science articles. She also created several plant maps. As a co-author she was involved in eight books on the subjects of ecology and plant geography. Significant works were Vegetation of Poland , Biological aspects of plant conservation (1981) and Geografia roślin (1986). She was also the editor of two Polish trade journals.

Appreciation

Anna Medwecka-Kornaś services to ecology and environmental protection were honored in 1979 with the Polish Knight's Cross. In 1982 she was awarded the Van Tienhoven Prize. The W. Szafer Medal for Scientific Achievements was presented to her in 1989.

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• Renate Strohmeyer: Lexicon of the natural scientists and women of Europe . Verlag Harri Deutsch, ISBN 3-8171-1567-9 , p. 189 f.
• Ed .: Nicholas Polunin, Lynn M. Curme: World Who's who and Does what in Environment & Conservation Google Book view

Web links

• Author entry and list of the plant names described for Anna Medwecka-Kornaś at the IPNI