Gerd K. Müller

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gerd Klaus Müller (born September 7, 1929 in Gera ; † March 7, 2012 in Leipzig ) was a German biologist, emeritus university professor and former director of the Leipzig Botanical Garden. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ GKMüll. ".

Live and act

After completing school in Gera and Greiz, Müller studied biology at the University of Leipzig from 1948 to 1953 . He then worked as a research assistant at the Botanical Institute of the University of Leipzig, where he mainly worked in the field of geobotany . In 1964 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the plant-geographical structure of Central and West Saxony. In this work he described several new plant communities, including the

  • Night light carnation milkweed society: Euphorbio exiguae-Melandrietum noctiflori G. Müller 1964 and the
  • Hundspetersilien-Hohlzahn-Gesellschaft: Aethuso cynapium-Galeopsietum tetrahit G. Müller 1964.

From 1968 Müller headed the taxonomy / ecology department of the biosciences section and was director of the Botanical Garden of the University of Leipzig .

In 1971 and 1972 Müller was visiting professor at the San Marcos University in Lima . In numerous research and collecting trips to Peru , Ecuador and Colombia as well as teaching assignments in these countries, Müller made numerous scientific contacts in South America and thus became an excellent expert on the ornamental and useful plants of the tropical American flora. In addition to the floristic studies, Müller also described plant communities of the Loma formation in Peru using the Braun-Blanquet method .

Müller was co-editor of Volume 5: Herbaceous ornamental and useful plants of the "Excursion flora of Germany" founded by Werner Rothmaler and has published numerous scientific publications as well as popular scientific books on botany.

literature

  • The importance of the arable weed communities for the plant-geographical division of West and Central Saxony. Dissertation at the mathematical and natural science faculty of the University of Leipzig 1964. 222 S. Also in Hercynia, ser. n. 1: 82-166, 213-313.
  • The fog-induced vegetation of the central Peruvian coastal desert. Habilitation at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Leipzig in 1981.
  • For the floristic analysis of the Peruvian Loma vegetation . In: Flora 176: 153-165 (1985)
  • The plant communities of the Loma areas of central Peru . In: Wissensch. Magazine d. University of Leipzig , Math.-Naturw. Series 34 (4): 317-356 (1985)

Web links

source

  • Blurb in "Secrets of the Plant World" 1994

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Work on plant communities described by Müller (PDF; 1.1 MB)
  2. ↑ The plant communities of the Loma areas of Central Peru (1985) (PDF; 4.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Gerd K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Gerd Klaus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 2012
Place of death Leipzig