Gustav Schellenberg

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Gustav August Ludwig David Schellenberg (born September 28, 1882 in Wiesbaden ; † June 4, 1963 there ) was a German botanist and newspaper publisher . His botanical author's abbreviation is “ G.Schellenb. "

Career

Schellenberg was born the son of the royal court printer Louis Schellenberg and Marie Verdan. From 1902 he studied natural sciences in Zurich, Heidelberg and Munich and received his doctorate in botany in Zurich in 1910 under Hans Schinz .

He then worked at the universities of Munich and Zurich and from 1912 at the Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem in Berlin as a scientific assistant, then as editor of the Wiesbadener Tagblatt . The military service from July 1915 to November 1918 interrupted his career. In July 1919 he completed his habilitation in Kiel under Johannes Reinke for botany. In April 1925 he came to the University of Göttingen as a lecturer in pharmacognosy , where he was appointed associate professor in the spring of 1926. In October 1932 he took over the management of L. Schellenbergschen Hofbuchdruckerei , where he published the Wiesbadener Tagblatt , among other things .

After the end of World War II, the American military government did not give him a license to continue running the newspaper. His print shop was confiscated and made available to the licensees of the new Wiesbaden courier . When the license requirement was lifted after the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, Schellenberg re- founded the Wiesbadener Tagblatt and published the first new edition in September 1949.

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SURNAME Schellenberg, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schellenberg, Gustav August Ludwig David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and newspaper publisher
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH 4th June 1963
Place of death Wiesbaden