Maximilian Weigend

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Maximilian Weigend (born September 25, 1969 in Erbendorf ) is a German botanist . Its botanical author abbreviation is " Weigend ".

As a student, Weigend received first prize in the Federal President's history competition on the subject of "environmental history" in 1987 and 1989, and in 1992 from the South African Phycological Society for his studies on the phytochemistry of South African macroalgae .

In 1993 he graduated from the South African University of Natal-Pietermaritzburg and then moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . As part of his research, he traveled to Venezuela , Colombia , Ecuador and Peru before writing his dissertation “ NASA and the conquest of South America - Systematic Rearrangements in Loasaceae Juss ” in July 1997 . “ Received his PhD Magna cum laude . As part of this work, Weigend presented a complete revision of the flower nettle family (Loasaceae) and described numerous genera and species anew, but due to a technical error, the taxa first had to be validated in 2006. He received several awards for his dissertation.

From 1999, Weigend began researching the genera Ribes and Desfontainia ; In 2000 he moved to the Institute for Systematic Botany and Phytogeography at the Free University of Berlin as an assistant professor . In 2011 he was appointed to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , where he succeeded Wilhelm Barthlott as director of the Bonn Botanical Garden . Since then he has also been the deputy director of the Nees Institute for Plant Biodiversity.

Weigend has presented arrangements of the nettle plants for several standard works, for example in 2001 for the Flora de Colombia and in 2004 for the sixth volume of the Families and Genera of Vascular Plants .

Weigend is married and has two children.

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  1. ↑ a b c M. Weigend: Flora de Colombia - Loasaceae. 2001, pp. 99-100, Bogotá, ISSN  0120-4351
  2. ↑ See: International Code Of Botanical Nomenclature (Vienna Code), Art. 30.5, Ex. 10, Online
  3. ↑ a b Maximilian Weigends homepage at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
  4. ↑ Personnel entry  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the side of the institute@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.nees.uni-bonn.de  

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SURNAME Weigend, Maximilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Erbendorf