Erna Walter
Erna Walter (born August 11, 1893 in Bonn ; † January 2, 1992 ) was a German botanist .
The daughter of the botanist Heinrich Schenck studied botany, physics and chemistry in Darmstadt and Heidelberg . She received her doctorate in 1918 under Georg Albrecht Klebs at the University of Heidelberg.
She then worked as a research assistant at the Botanical Institute of the University of Heidelberg with Ludwig Jost and as an intern at the Biological Reichsanstalt in Berlin-Dahlem. She was also an assistant at the Klein Wanzleben sugar factory and at the viticulture school in Oppenheim am Rhein .
In 1924 she married the geobotanist Heinrich Walter . With this she undertook numerous research trips, in which she devoted herself in particular to lichens and mosses . She played a major role in her husband's research.
Your plant finds are kept in the Herbarium in Munich. It contains among other things mosses and lichens from Argentina, Australia, Chile, Germany, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Yugoslavia, Canada, Namibia, New Zealand, Norway, Austria, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, from Turkey, from the British Isles and Venezuela.
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| SURNAME | Walter, Erna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd January 1992 |