Hansjörg Eichler

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Hansjörg Eichler (born April 1, 1916 in Ravensburg ; † June 22, 1992 in Berlin ) was a German botanist who mainly worked in Australia . Its botanical author's abbreviation is " H.Eichler ".

Life

Hansjörg Eichler was the son of the architect Gustav Eichler and the portrait and landscape painter Anna Eichler born. Sellin. He attended school in Ravensburg and one of his teachers was Karl Bertsch , one of the leading botanists in Württemberg. This promoted his botanical interests and also took him on his private excursions.

In 1936 his family moved to Berlin. He volunteered at the Botanical Museum in Berlin-Dahlem and then enrolled at the University of Berlin with a major in botany and chemistry. His desire to become a full-time employee at the museum in Dahlem was shattered by the bombing on March 1, 1943, when the museum was shattered. After the war he continued his studies in Halle-Wittenberg from 1946 to 1949. He received his doctorate there in 1950 with a thesis on floristic and phytocoenological studies of the hook and its immediate surroundings . In 1953 he married Marie-Luise Möhring, who also supported him in his academic and professional activities.

In 1953 he went to Parma and later to the Rijksmuseum in Leiden to research his specialty, the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae). In 1955 he was appointed head of the State Herbarium in Adelaide , South Australia. From here he worked to promote botanical research in Australia and the conservation of nature there. In 1973 he moved from Adelaide to Canberra and also founded the magazine Brunonia. He was also an expert on nomenclature and taxonomy and was also active here internationally. Another specialty was the genus Hydrocotyle (Araliaceae). One of his goals was a flora for Australia, for which he campaigned strongly and which also began in 1990. He did not experience the further progress of the work, because he suddenly died during a visit to Europe in Berlin.

Honors

He was awarded the Willdenow Prize in 1979 for the services he had earned in maintaining the Berlin-Dahlem Herbarium. Several plant species are named after him, including:

  • Chionogentias eichleri L.G.Adams (Gentianaceae)
  • Picris eichleri Lack & S. Holzapfel (Asteraceae)
  • Ptilotus eichlerianus Benl (Amaranthaceae)
  • Ranunculus eichlerianus Briggs (Ranunculaceae).

Also, a genus Eichlerago Carrick from the family of mint (Lamiaceae) got its name.

Works (selection)

  • Revision of the Ranunculaceae of Malesia . Bibliotheca Botanica, Volume 124, 1.110, Plates 1-6, 1958
  • Supplement to JMBlack's Flora of South Australia (ed. 2, 1943-1957) . 385 pp. Adelaide, 1965.
  • Nomenclatural and bibliographical survey of Hydrocotyle L. (Apiaceae) . Feddes Repert. 98, 1-51, 145-196, 273-350,1987.

literature

  • Helmut Herwanger: Upper Swabian botanists from five centuries. A biographical bibliographical lexicon . Annual books Ges. Naturkunde Württemberg 170, part 2, pages 132-137, 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

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personal data
SURNAME Eichler, Hansjörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Ravensburg
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1992
Place of death Berlin