Robert Hegnauer

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Robert Hegnauer (born August 1, 1919 in Aarau ; † April 14, 2007 in Leiden ) was a Swiss botanist, pharmacologist and chemist, known for his contributions to the chemotaxonomy of plants and phytochemistry .

Life

Hegnauer completed after graduation a pharmacist teaching (pharmacist exam in 1945 at the ETH Zurich ), one year worked in the island pharmacy in Bern and was in 1948 Hans Flück at ETH Zurich PhD . From 1949 he was at the University of Leiden , where he was first professor for pharmacy (pharmacognosy) in 1952 and then in 1962 for experimental plant systematics. He headed the Laboratory for Experimental Plant Systematics (LEPS). In 1979 he retired .

He wrote a basic, multi-volume standard work on the classification of plants according to their chemical constituents (chemotaxonomy), which comprises around 10,000 pages. He was particularly concerned with alkaloids , cyanides , mustard oil glycosides , iridoids and phenols in plants.

He was an honorary member of the German Botanical Society , a member of the Leopoldina (1972) and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (1973). In 1971 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the ETH Zurich (whose Flückiger Medal he received in 1976) and in 1987 from the University of Utrecht . He was an honorary member of the American Society of Pharmacognosy (1970), the Society for Medicinal Plant Research (GA, 1978) and the Phytochemical Society of Europe. In 1999 he received the Egon Stahl Prize in gold from the Society for Medicinal Plant Research and in 1987 he was awarded the medal of the Phytochemical Society of Europe. He was a corresponding member of the Botanical Society of America.

At his institute he published the newsletter Danseria . The extensive library of Hegnauer went to the National Herbarium of the Netherlands.

He was married to Minie Hegnauer-Vogelenzang, with whom he had a daughter and two sons. His wife was also most recently co-author of Hegnauer's standard work Chemotaxonomie.

Fonts

  • Chemotaxonomy of plants. An overview of the distribution and the systematic importance of plant substances . Birkhäuser, 13 parts, 1962 to 2001

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: Contribution to the chemical and morphological knowledge of the Swiss thymus forms .
  2. ↑ Member entry by Robert Hegnauer at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 17, 2015.
  3. ↑ Named after Friedrich August Flückiger (1828–1894).
  4. ↑ Named after Benedictus Hubertus Danser (1891–1943).
personal data
SURNAME Hegnauer, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss botanist and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Aarau
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 2007
Place of death Leiden (city)