Heinrich E. Weber

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Heinrich Egon Weber (born March 27, 1932 in Osnabrück , died May 2, 2020 in Bramsche ) was a German vegetation expert , musicologist and university lecturer .

Life

The son of a music teacher, composer and choir director graduated from high school in Osnabrück in 1951. From 1953 he then studied music and biology for the teaching post in secondary schools at the music academy and at the same time at the University of Hamburg . Weber had already developed a great interest in both subjects as a schoolboy. In 1956 he passed the 1st state examination with a musicological topic. In his work he dealt with the composer Leonhard Lechner , which he subsequently worked on as a dissertation . In 1962, he was on completion of the state exam in biology with the work The relationship between music and text in Latin motets Leonhard Lechner at the University of Hamburg Dr. phil. PhD . He also passed the 1st state examination in biology at the University of Hamburg, where Heinz Ellenberg was one of his academic teachers.

Since he decided after his musicological promotion to do research in botany, he put a dissertation on the vegetation and ecology of hedgerows in Schleswig-Holstein in front with which he at the geobotanist Ernst-Wilhelm Raabe at the University of Kiel Dr. rer. nat. received his doctorate. From 1966 to 1968 Weber was Raabe's research assistant at the Botanical Institute at Kiel University.

During his work on the wall hedges , Weber recognized the importance of the blackberry species , which occur in numerous clans in these biotopes and shape them. Since there are only a few botanists who have in-depth knowledge of the floristry of blackberries, Weber has familiarized himself with this genus and has specialized in the taxonomy , morphology , chorology , sociology and ecology of the numerous blackberry species. He published this work as a monograph entitled The genus Rubus L. (Rosaceae) in northwestern Europe .

In 1968 Weber ended his activity as a research assistant at the University of Kiel and switched to the higher education service in Hamburg, where he first became a study assessor. In 1970 he got a job as a teacher at the school in Melle .

In 1973 he was offered a chair for biology and didactics of biology at the University of Osnabrück, Vechta department , where he taught until his retirement in 2000.

Heinrich E. Weber has been married to Elisabeth Weber, born Dreyer, since 1969. The couple have two grown daughters and live in Bramsche .

Main research areas

  • Taxonomy and biodiversity of fern and flowering plants (especially of the Rubus genus)
  • Development and status of flora in western Lower Saxony with neighboring Westphalia
  • Syntaxonomy especially of the bush societies
  • Nature conservation management, including regeneration of raised bogs
  • Syntaxonomic nomenclature

Honors

Dedication names

Fonts

  • The relationships between music and text in Leonhard Lechner's Latin motets , dissertation, Hamburg 1961
  • On the vegetation of the Knicks in Schleswig-Holstein , dissertation, Kiel 1967 (in print as issue 15 of the communications of the Working Group for Floristry in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg (2 volumes), Working Group for Floristics in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg, Kiel 1967)
  • The genus Rubus L. (Rosaceae) in northwestern Europe. From the north-west German lowlands to Scandinavia with special consideration of Schleswig-Holstein , Volume 7 of Phanerogamarum monographiae , Cramer, Lehr 1972 ( ISBN 3-7682-0858-3 )
  • Vegetation of the nature reserve Balksee and Randmoore (Cuxhaven district). Documentation and suggestions for a care program for the preservation of plants and plant communities worthy of protection , issue 9 of the series Nature Conservation and Landscape Management in Lower Saxony , Lower Saxony State Administration Office, Hanover 1978 ( ISBN 3-922321-08-9 )
  • Revision of the section Corylifolii (genus Rubus, Rosaceae) in Scandinavia and northern Central Europe , special volumes of the Natural Science Association in Hamburg (Volume 4), Parey, Hamburg and Berlin 1981 ( ISBN 3-490-13396-X )
  • together with Hans Oluf Martensen, Anfred Pedersen et al .: Atlas of blackberries from Denmark, Schleswig-Holstein and neighboring Lower Saxony (genus Rubus L., sections Rubus and Corylifolii) , issue 5 of the series of researches and reports on nature conservation and landscape management , Lower Saxony State Administration Office, Hanover 1983 ( ISBN 3-922321-19-4 )
  • together with Anfred Pedersen et al .: Atlas of the blackberries of Lower Saxony and Bremen (genus Rubus L. subgenus Rubus) , Volume 28 of the series Nature Conservation and Landscape Management in Lower Saxony , Lower Saxony State Office for Ecology, Hanover 1993 ( ISBN 3-922321-64-X )
  • Illustrated flora of Central Europe
    • as editor of Volume 4: Angiospermae - Dicotyledones 2 (2) , 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition, Weißdorn-Verlag, Jena 1995 ( ISBN 3-8263-3016-1 )
    • as editor of Volume 4, Part 2, C .: Spermatophyta. Angiosperms. Dicotyledones 2 (4) , 2nd, completely revised and expanded edition, Weißdorn-Verlag, Jena 2003 ( ISBN 3-8263-3065-X )
  • Rubi Westfalici. The blackberries of Westphalia and the Osnabrück area (Rubus L., Subgenus Rubus). Determination, taxonomy, nomenclature, ecology, distribution , in the series Treatises from the Westphalian Museum of Natural History (47th year, issue 3), Westfälische Vereinsdruckerei, Münster 1985
  • Flora from southwest Lower Saxony and neighboring Westphalia , Wenner, Osnabrück 1995 ( ISBN 3-87898-340-9 )
  • as editor: Franguletea = buckthorn bushes , published by Hartmut Dierschke as issue 4 of the series Synopsis of the Plant Societies in Germany , Florist-Sociological Working Group, Göttingen 1998
  • as editor: Rhamno-Prunetea = sloe and elderberry bushes , edited by Hartmut Dierschke as issue 5 of the series Synopsis of the Plant Societies of Germany , Florist-Sociological Working Group, Göttingen 1999
  • as editor: Salicetea arenariae = thin willow bushes , edited by Hartmut Dierschke as issue 6 of the series Synopsis of the Plant Societies in Germany , Florist-Sociological Working Group, Göttingen 1999
  • together with Jaroslav Moravec and Jean-Paul Theurillat: International Code of Plant Sociological Nomenclature (ICPN) ( International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature ), 3rd edition, edited by Hartmut Dierschke as special issue 1 of the Synopsis series of plant societies in Germany , Florist-Sociological Working Group, Göttingen 2001
  • Bushes, hedges, herb fringes , in the series Ecosystems of Central Europe from a geobotanical perspective , Ulmer, Stuttgart-Hohenheim 2003 ( ISBN 3-8001-4163-9 )
  • as editor together with Ernst Preising : The Plant Societies of Lower Saxony. Part 2: Forests and bushes , Lower Saxony State Office for Ecology (Nature Conservation Department), Hanover 2003 ( ISBN 3-922321-89-5 )
  • Batologici europaei illustrati et broadviter descripti . 2009 → (online)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Portrait of Heinrich E. Weber on the award of the Reinhold Tüxen Prize in 2009
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Heinrich E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weber, Heinrich Egon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German vegetation expert, musicologist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück