Pieter Baas

Portrait of Baas
by Carla Rodenberg (2005)

Pieter Baas (born April 28, 1944 in Wieringermeer ) is a Dutch botanist . Its botanical author abbreviation is " Baas ".

Life

Baas attended high school (HBS) and in 1962 began studying biology at the University of Leiden . Here he received his doctorate in natural sciences with the distinction cum laude on June 18, 1975 with the topic Comparative anatomy of Ilex, Nemopanthus, Sphenostemon, Phelline, and Oncotheca . He then worked as secretary of the International Association of Wood Anatomists and as editor of the association's trade journal. During that time he organized and participated in several conferences around the world. On May 23, 1987 he was appointed associate professor for systematic plant anatomy at the Leiden University and took over the position on June 1, 1987. On February 12, 1988, he gave the inaugural lecture Op het scherp van de snede ( German: Auf des Messers Schneide ) . After Cornelis Kalkman's retirement , Baas became a full professor of systematic botany and scientific director of the Hortus Botanicus Leiden and the Imperial Herbarium there. In this capacity he organized the first Congress of the Flora Malesinana in Leiden in 1989 .  

Under his leadership, the National Herbarium of the Netherlands ( Dutch Nationaal Herbarium Nederland ) came into being in 1999 , a result of the cooperation between the Botanical Museum and Herbarium in Utrecht , the Leiden Hortus Botanicus and Imperial Herbarium and the Herbarium Valdense in Wageningen . In 2003 he received the Linnaeus Medal of the Linne Society in London , of which he is a corresponding member. He is also a member of the Botanical Society of America ( German  Botanical Society of America ), honorary member of the International Association of Wood Anatomists (IAWA) ( German  Des International Association of Wood Anatomists ) and honorary member of the Indian Association of Plant taxonomists ( German  Indian Association of plant Classification ). Until 2005 he was chairman of the Dutch Foundation for National Plant Collection ( Dutch Stichting Nationale Plantencollectie ), became Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion in 2005 and has been a member of the Royal Dutch Society of Sciences since 2000 . The fossil plant family Baasia and Baasoxylon have been named after him. In 2005 he retired. Erik Smets (* 1957) became his academic successor .

literature

• Album Scholasticum Academiae lugduno-batavae MDMLXXV - MCMLXXXIX. Leids Universiteits-Fonds, Leiden 1991, p. 7.

Web links

• Entry P. Baas at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences
• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Pieter Baas at the IPNI