Elly Nannenga-Bremekamp

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Elly Nannenga-Bremekamp , born Neeltje Elizabeth Bremekamp , (* 1916 in Surabaya , Indonesia , † 1996 ) was a Dutch botanist . Her specialty was the Myxogastria , her official botanical author abbreviation is " Nann.-Bremek. ".

Life

Both parents were biologists and the family lived in Indonesia at the time of Elly's birth. After the early death of her mother, her father and his daughter moved back to the Netherlands, where Bremekamp attended elementary school in Delft and Amsterdam before her father accepted a professorship at the University of Transvaal in South Africa. In 1924 the family moved to Pretoria , shortly afterwards back to Europe, where Bremekamp went to school in England. She studied biology in Utrecht, where she discovered the taxonomy of phanerogams (seed plants) as an area of ​​interest. At the University of Utrecht she also met her future husband ET Nannenga, with whom she had four daughters. Bremekamp moved with him to Heelsum in Gelderland .

The focus of her work was on scientific illustrations of mussels, butterflies, mosses and mushrooms. After she lost almost her entire library and collection with her house in the Second World War, one of the few works that was left to her was Arthur and Guilielma Lister's monograph on the real slime mold, the Myxogastria, and turned the subject as a new focus to. Since 1960 she has published extensively, in particular on the myxomycete flora of the Himalayas, India and Japan, but also the Netherlands, and has earned an international reputation as a luminary . She carried out extensive collections in Western Europe and Africa; at the time of her death her herbarium comprised over 17,000 sheets, 11,500 microscopic specimens and 6,500 illustrations. The collection is now kept and digitized by the National Botanical Garden of Belgium .

Web links

Author entry and list of the described plant names for Elly Nannenga-Bremekamp at the IPNI

proof

  1. ↑ a b plants.jstor.org: Nannenga-Bremekamp, ​​Neeltje Elizabeth (Elly) (1916-1996) - JSTOR Plant Science , accessed April 12, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Nannenga-Bremekamp, ​​Elly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bremekamp, ​​Neeltje Elizabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch mycologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Surabaya , Indonesia
DATE OF DEATH 1996