Thomas Gregor

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Thomas Gregor (born December 25, 1956 in Berlin ) is a German botanist . Its botanical author abbreviation is " T.Gregor ".

Career

Gregor attended the Third Elementary School in Berlin-Steglitz from 1962 to 1966 , then from 1966 to 1975 the Protestant high school at the Gray Monastery in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . From 1975 to 1980 he studied biology at the Free University of Berlin . The topic of the diploma thesis was "The plants of the deforested areas and the vertebrates in the main moor of the Teufelsbruch nature reserve (Berlin-Spandau)". From 1983 to 1985 Gregor did an agricultural apprenticeship in the Vogelsbergkreis / Hessen . In 1992 he received his doctorate at the Technical University of Berlin with the dissertation "Flora and Vegetation des Schlitzerlandes". He completed his habilitation in 2005 in the field of ecology at the University of Vechta . Between 1993 and 1998 he gave lectures on "Nature and Landscape Protection" at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . From 2000 to 2008 he held lectures as a university assistant at Vechta University. Gregor is currently employed as a research assistant at the Senckenberg Research Institute and Nature Museum in Frankfurt and lives in Schlitz .

Gregor was an honorary judge at the Gießen Administrative Court from 1991 to 1995 and has been the editor of the journal “Botanik und Naturschutz in Hessen” since 1992. Until 2017 he was chairman of the Society for Research into the Flora of Germany . Thomas Gregor was repeatedly on ringing stations at various bird ringing stations and in 1986 volunteer at the Charles Darwin station ( Galápagos / Ecuador ).

Newly described plant species

Thomas Gregor described Potentilla alsatica from the southern Upper Rhine region as well as Valeriana pratensis subsp. Which occurs in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Thuringia as well as in Alsace . franconica .

literature

  • M. Breitfeld, E. Hertel, A. Baumann: The Florenwerke Germany - works and authors. In: Ber. Bayer. Bot. Ges. (Special volume), 2017, pages 554–555. On-line

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas Gregor: Potentilla alsatica T. Gregor, a cinquefoil of the Potentilla collina group from the southern Upper Rhine plain. In: Bauhinia 18/2004, pp. 5–20 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Thomas Gregor, Lenz Meierott , Juraj Paule: Morphological variability in tetraploid Valeriana officinalis sl in Germany: Valeriana pratensis subsp. franconica Meierott & T.Gregor, subsp. nov. In: Reports of the Bavarian Botanical Society 86/2016, pp. 27–36 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Gregor, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin