Hans-Jürgen Beug

Hans-Jürgen Beug (born January 18, 1932 in Hamburg ) is a German botanist and professor.

Hans-Jürgen Beug studied biology and botany at the University of Hamburg and the Georg-August University of Göttingen . In 1957 he received his doctorate with a work on vegetation history under Franz Firbas . He then worked at the Systematic Geobotanical Institute in Göttingen, among other things as curator of the herbarium . In 1963 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the late and postglacial vegetation history in the Lake Garda area .

From 1967 he taught at the University of Hohenheim and in 1969 followed a call to Göttingen, where, in addition to his professorship, he was dean , vice-rector , rector and vice-rector . Beug is co-founder of the working group on the history of vegetation of the Reinhold-Tüxen-Gesellschaft and was chairman of the working group until 2007. Beug retired in 1997.

Honors

• Albrecht Penck Medal of the German Quaternary Association

Works (selection)

• Investigations into the late glacial and early post-glacial flora and vegetation history of some low mountain ranges. Goettingen 1957
• Investigations into the late and post-glacial vegetation history in the Lake Garda area. Goettingen 1963
• Forest borders and forest cover in Europe during the Ice Age. Göttingen 1977
• In memoriam Werner Weber. Göttingen 1977
• Landscape history in the Hochharz. Clausthal-Zellerfeld 1999
• Vegetation history and human impact in the Eastern Central Himalaya (Langtang and Helambu, Nepal). Berlin 1999
• Guide to pollen determination for Central Europe and neighboring areas. Munich 2004

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Jürgen Beug in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jahns, S et al. (2006) A thankful tribute to Hans-Jürgen Beug on the occasion of his 75th birthday . Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 16 (2-3) , 73-75, doi : 10.1007 / s00334-006-0086-2