Walo cook

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Walo Koch (born November 29, 1896 in Laufenburg / Switzerland ; † July 18, 1956 in Poschiavo ) was a Swiss botanist and one of the fathers of plant sociology . His botanical author's abbreviation is " W.Koch ".

Life

Walo Koch was the son of a doctor. After primary and secondary school in Rorschach, he attended high school in St. Gallen , where he passed his Matura exam in 1916 . In the same year he began studying pharmacy at the ETH Zurich . In 1920 he passed the state examination as a pharmacist .

As early as 1917 he began studying the sociology of plants in the Lin Plain , which he continued for the next few years. After receiving his doctorate in 1926 as Dr. rer. nat. under the guidance of Carl Schroeter (subject: The vegetation units of the Linth plain ) he initially worked as a pharmacist.

In 1930 he got a job as a conservator at the herbarium of the ETH Zurich, from which in 1939 he was appointed associate professor for systematic botany and plant sociology. In addition to floristry and systematics, Koch worked on vegetation studies and thereby significantly promoted the methods of the then young plant sociology. Koch's estate includes herbaria of vascular plants and cryptogams .

Koch died on an excursion to the Bernina region during which he wanted to introduce his students to the flora of the Alps.

Fonts

  • The vegetation units of the Lin Plain taking into account the conditions in north-eastern Switzerland. Systematic-critical studies. In: Yearbook of the St. Gall Science Society. Volume 61, St. Gallen 1926.

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SURNAME Cook, Walo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss botanist
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Laufenburg AG
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1956
Place of death Poschiavo