Dietrich Podlech

Dietrich Podlech (born April 28, 1931 in Aachen ) is a German botanist . His botanical author's abbreviation is " Podlech ".

Live and act

Dietrich Podlech was born in Aachen and studied pharmaceutical biology in Bonn. He received his doctorate in 1958, also in Bonn, with Maximilian Steiner on the subject of studies of the ecology of Atlantic plants at their limit of distribution .

From 1960 to 1965 he was a scientific assistant to Hermann Merxmüller at the Botanical State Collection in Munich , where he completed his habilitation in 1965 at the Faculty of Biology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . This was followed by positions from 1965 to 1967 as a curator at the Botanical State Collection , 1967–1971 as a scientific adviser, and from 1971 to his retirement in 1996 as a professor (C3) at the Institute for Systematic Botany and Mycology.

His main focus was the Cyperaceae , especially Carex , then Campanula and Saxifraga and from the mid-1960s on various families for Merxmüller's Prodromus of a Flora of South West Africa . From the 1970s onwards, Podlech worked increasingly on astragalus , the most species-rich genus of flowering plants. Numerous trips, especially to Afghanistan (four trips from 1965 to 1979, over 44 months (more than 3.5 years), exploring all 28 provinces of the country) resulted in a herbarium that is valuable today, of which duplicates are both in the herbarium of the university in Kabul and Munich are located. At the end of 1991 Dietrich Podlech and the newly appointed Jürke Grau founded the university herbarium of the Ludwig Maximilians University, with Podlech's own herbarium of 90,000 specimens at the time, which soon grew to 200,000 specimens through exchange and further collection, making it currently the second largest herbarium Bavaria became.

Honors

The plant genus Podlechiella Maassoumi & Kaz.Osaloo from the legume family (Fabaceae) is named after Podlech .

Publications

Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Afghanistan (2012), approx. 4500 Taxa are named here as occuring in Afghanistan
Podlech, D. & Sh. Zarre 2013. A taxonomic revision of the genus Astragalus L. (Leguminosae) in the Old Word . 3 Vol. Published by the Natural History Museum Vienna. pp. 2439. Opus maxissimum.
Nature guide medicinal plants, two nature guides “Flowers”, nature guide plants of the Mediterranean, partly with Wolfgang Lippert, translated into several languages.

Web links

Author entry and list of the plant names described for Dietrich Podlech at the IPNI

Individual evidence

^ IPNI Author Query Results. Retrieved December 10, 2018 .
↑ Herbarium MSB and index of the collectors represented in the herbaria M and MSB. University of Munich, August 1, 2016, accessed on December 10, 2018 .
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Podlech, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 28, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aachen

[1] IPNI Author Query Results. Retrieved December 10, 2018 .

[2] Herbarium MSB and index of the collectors represented in the herbaria M and MSB. University of Munich, August 1, 2016, accessed on December 10, 2018 .

[Burkhardt_2018-3] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .