Ulrich Willerding

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Ulrich Willerding (born July 8, 1932 in Querfurt ) is professor of botany (retired) at the University of Göttingen , senior teacher at a Göttingen grammar school and one of the leading paleo-ethnobotanists in Germany.

His collection of prehistoric plant finds is stored as the "Willerding Collection" in the Albrecht-von-Haller Institute for Plant Sciences, Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamics. The collection, which was created between 1960 and 2010, is still used in research.

Publications (selection)

  • Paleoethnobotany and its position in the system of science (reports of the German Botanical Society) , 1978.
  • On the history of weeds in Central Europe , 1986.
  • "Land use and nutrition", in: Göttingen: History of a university town . Volume 1: From the beginning to the end of the Thirty Years' War / Dietrich Denecke, Helga-Maria Kühn (ed.), 1987.
  • Paleo-ethnobotanical findings on living and environmental conditions in the Middle Ages. In: Bernd Hermann , Rolf Sprandel (Hrsg.): Determinants of population development in the Middle Ages. Weinheim ad Bergstr. 1987, pp. 109-125.
  • Agricultural production structures in the Middle Ages. In: Bernd Herrmann (Ed.): Man and the environment in the Middle Ages. Stuttgart 1986; 3rd anastatic edition ibid, pp. 244-256.
  • Land use around urban and rural settlements in the Middle Ages. In: Peter Dilg, Gundolf Keil, Dietz-Rüdiger Moser (eds.): Rhythm and Seasonality. Congress files of the 5th symposium of the Medievalist Association in Göttingen 1993. , Sigmaringen 1995, pp. 377-402.
  • Early Medieval Gardens (Archaeological Communications from Northwest Germany) , 1996.
  • "On the use of plants in house building in the Middle Ages and during the modern era", in: Terra & Praehistoria. Festschrift for K.-D. Hunter , 1996.
  • Environmental reconstruction (Archaeological Communications from Northwest Germany) , 1996.
  • "Agriculture among the Teutons and in the Roman provinces up to the Migration Period: keeping domestic animals" and "Agriculture in the early Middle Ages (6th-10th centuries): gardening, fruit and viticulture" - specialist archaeological literature (contributions to prehistory and early history Central Europe; 14), 2003.
  • The plant finds from Starigard / Oldenburg , 2004.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornflowers in the Middle Ages: The Willerding Collection is used again in research and teaching , in: Uniinform April 2014 (Journal of the University of Göttingen)
personal data
SURNAME Willerding, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleo-ethnobotanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Querfurt