Erich Klein (botanist)

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Erich Robert Klein (* 28. April 1931 in Linz , † 7. October 2016 ) was an Austrian , to the family of orchids specialized biologist. Its botanical author's abbreviation is " E. Klein ".

His parents, Martin and Katharina, geb. Posch, had sold their Bozen inn “Zur Weißen Traube” shortly before his birth and had moved to Upper Austria with the older children Martin and Rosa. At the Khevenhüller Realgymnasium he passed the Matura in 1950 and then studied chemistry at the philosophical faculty of the University of Vienna. He also took courses in organic chemistry with Friedrich Wessely . From summer 1954 to February 1957 he worked with Karl Kratzl on his dissertation “On the side chain structure of lignin”.

In 1958 he married Marianne Ellmerich from St. Martin (Lower Austria) and moved with her to Mülheim an der Ruhr , where Erich began his professional career as an employee at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research . He was awarded the Theodor-Körner-Prize for the work "Degradation and measurement of radioactively masked compounds" . In 1960 and 1964 the sons Günther and Stephan were born.

At the beginning of 1963 he moved to Dragoco in Holzminden, where he was responsible for the research agenda as division manager until 1985. While scrambling on the northern slope of the castle hill, he came across the faintly scented Cypripedium calceolus . Since then, vacation trips have led to orchid locations on the Mediterranean. After the death of his wife in 1980, he married Susanne Sabitzer and in 1988 bought a house east of Graz.

In 1986 he became managing director of Quest in Hamburg, and from 1989 until his retirement in 2001 he was vice president of Quest International . Fragrance production was relocated to Ashford in Kent.

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SURNAME Klein, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klein, Erich Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian biologist specializing in orchids
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 2016