Herald Georg Wilhelm Johannes Schweickerdt
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Herald Georg Wilhelm Johannes Schweickerdt (born November 29, 1903 in Schmie , Baden-Württemberg , † February 21, 1977 in Pretoria ) was a South African botanist of German descent.
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He came to the Cape Colony with his parents as a child in 1904 . He then studied in South Africa and Bonn and was then professor of botany in Pretoria. From 1940 to 1964 he was also the inspector of the Old Botanical Garden at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . Its author's abbreviation is " Schweick. "
His specialty in the Agrostologie was the family of the sweet grasses .
Honor taxon
The specific epithet schweickerdtiana and schweickerdtii honors herald Georg Wilhelm Johannes Schweickerdt, for example with the species Gasteria schweickerdtiana Poelln. ( Xanthorrhoeaceae ), Caralluma schweickerdtii Oberm. ( Asclepiadaceae ), Schoenoxiphium schweickerdtii Merxm. & Podlech ( Cyperaceae ), Eriocaulon schweickerdtii Moldenke ( Eriocaulaceae ), Grewia schweickerdtii Burret ( Tiliaceae ).
Fonts
- Investigations on photodinesis in Vallisneria spiralis . Borntraeger, Leipzig 1928 [ed. 1931], pp. 79-134. In: Yearbooks of Scientific Botany. Volume 68, H. 1. University thesis Bonn , Philological dissertation.
- A revision of the South African species of Helictotrichon
- together with Wessel Marais Morphological investigations on Oryza barthii A.Chev.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 2046. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7
- ^ Author entry and list of the plant names described for Herald Georg Wilhelm Johannes Schweickerdt at the IPNI
- ↑ Bothalia , Volume 3, No. 2, 1937, pp. 185–203 ( PDF )
- ↑ Botanical Yearbooks for Systematics, Plant History and Plant Geography , Volume 77, pp. 1–24, 1956
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| SURNAME | Schweickerdt, Herald Georg Wilhelm Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African botanist of German descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schmie , Baden-Württemberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1977 |
| Place of death | Pretoria |