Hans Weber (botanist)

Hans Friedrich Weber (born October 6, 1911 in Delitzsch , Saxony-Anhalt , † December 18, 2006 in Mainz ) was a German botanist . His botanical author's abbreviation is " H. Weber ".

Life

Hans Weber, born in Delitzsch, son of Friedrich Weber and Margarete born Biehl, high school graduate at the Oberrealschule Delitzsch, then turned to studying biology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , which he acquired in 1936 the academic degree of Dr. phil. completed.

After years of assistantship , he completed his habilitation in 1939 as a private lecturer in botany and pharmacognosy at the Albertus University in Königsberg , and in 1946 he accepted a full professorship for these subjects at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . He was also appointed head of the Institute for Special Botany and, in 1963, succeeded Wilhelm Troll as head of the Botanical Garden . Hans Weber, who undertook research trips to South and Central America , held these positions until his retirement in 1979.

Hans Weber, who was married to Gerda, née Boettcher, with whom he had two children, died in December 2006 two months after he had turned 95.

Fonts

• Shape and organization of the higher plants, Herder, 1949
• The rooting conditions of plants, Herder, 1953
• The Páramos of Costa Rica and their botanical linkage with the high Andes of South America, publisher of the Academy of Sciences and Literature; on commission from F. Steiner, Wiesbaden, 1958

literature

• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 3, 13th edition, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3110074346 . Page 4162.
• August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? Das Deutsche Who's Who, Volume 42 , Schmidt-Römhild, 2003 ISBN 3795020360 . Page 1498.

Web links

• Author entry and list of the plant names described for Hans Weber (botanist) at the IPNI
• Entry in the Mainz professorial catalog Gutenberg Biographics