Bernd Becker (forest scientist)

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Bernd Becker (born June 13, 1940 in Augsburg ; † February 14, 1994 in Cologne ) was a German forest scientist and university professor.

Life

Bernd Becker studied forest sciences at the University of Munich . In 1959 he became a member of the Corps Arminia Munich . Bruno Huber was one of his academic teachers . After completing the degree with the forestry diploma and doctorate to Dr. oec. publ. he joined the University of Hohenheim in 1972 as a research assistant and academic adviser . In 1972 he was promoted to senior academic councilor. In 1977 he was appointed an expert in dendrochronology at the Academy of Sciences and Literature . In 1983 he qualified as a professor at the University of Hohenheim in the field of botany with a focus on dendrochronology . In 1993 he was appointed adjunct professor.

Becker's research dealt mainly with tree ring analysis and dendrochronology, of which he is counted as a pioneer.

After his death, his collection of the cactus genus Gymnocalycium was transferred to the Hohenheim Gardens .

Awards

  • Pomerance Award of the Archaeological Institute of America, 1993

Fonts

  • Possibilities for the construction of an absolute tree ring chronology of the postglacial using subfossil oaks from Danube gravel . In: Reports of the German Botanical Society , Volume 85, Issue 1–4, pp. 29–45, May 1972
  • Felling dates of Roman timber based on a 2350 year old South German oak tree ring chronology . In find reports from Baden-Württemberg . Volume 6. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-8062-1252-X , pp. 369-386.
  • Dendrochronology. In: Erwin Keefer (ed.): The search for the past. 120 years of archeology at the Federsee, p. 60 f. Catalog for the exhibition, Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart, 1992, ISBN 3-929055-22-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 5 , 905
  2. ↑ Michael Friedrich, Bernd Kromer, Marco Spurk: Trees as contemporary witnesses . In: Spectrum of Science No. 4, 2001, p. 86 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Greenhouses at www.uni-hohenheim.de
  4. ^ Michael GL Baillie, Bernd Becker, Bernd Kromer, Gordon W. Pearson, Jon R. Pilcher, Minze Stuiver, and Hans E. Suess - 1993 Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archeology
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German forest scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1994
Place of death Cologne