Wilfried Morawetz

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Wilfried Morawetz (born November 17, 1951 in Leoben , Styria , † March 12, 2007 in Leipzig ) was an Austrian botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Morawetz ".

Life

Morawetz grew up in Bogotá , Madrid and Vienna . He studied from 1971 to 1980 Botany , zoology , paleontology at the University of Vienna and in 1980 at Friedrich Ehrendorfer with his work "ecological morphological differentiation, biology, systematics and evolution of neotropical genus Jacaranda (Bignoniaceae)" to Dr. phil. PhD . He worked as an assistant at the Institute for Botany in Vienna and stayed in 1974/1975 and 1980/1981 for research and teaching stays at the “Faculdade de Ciências Medicas e Biologicas de Botucatu” in São Paulo . In 1986 he completed his habilitation in Vienna and received the venia legendi for botany with special emphasis on systematic botany and tropical biology. From 1986 he was university professor for botany at the University of Vienna and from 1987 was head of the working group “Plant Systematics of Neotropics” at the Institute for Botany.

In 1994 he was appointed full professor to the chair for special botany and ecology at the Faculty of Biosciences, Pharmacy and Psychology at the University of Leipzig , and also director of the botanical garden (HBL) and the herbarium (LZ).

Act

The focus of research was the genetics of vascular plants and the relationships between plants and animals, in particular pollination biology and ant plants . Morawetz has been a member of the steering committee of the "Tropical Canopy Research (TCR)" of the European Science Foundation since 1991 . In 1993 he became head of the research center for "Biosystematics and Ecology" at the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Wilfried Morawetz had been a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences since 1999 .

In 2002 he was the founding board member and later director of the Latin America Center at the University of Leipzig. In 2006 Morawetz organized the international workshop on the German-Brazilian project "Open spaces in megacities - a potential for nature-oriented living". He was on several research trips to South America; He made headlines in 2005 with the assembly of a crane for treetop research , first in Venezuela and later in the Leipzig floodplain forest . In 2005 he brought treetop researchers from all over the world to their 4th International Conference in Leipzig.

In 1988 he was honored with the Sandoz Prize for Biology (now the Novartis Prize ). In 2010 the exhibition HORTUS MEDICUS took place in the Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth in Memoriam Prof. Dr. Wilfried Morawetz.

Fonts

  • Amazonas , Schroll 2nd edition 1992, ISBN 3703106751 , together with Fritz Trupp, Walter Hödl, Gerhard Kübelböck
  • Biology and ecology of the bromeliad fauna of Guzmania weberbauerei in Amazonian Peru. Bibliography of the Bromeliad Phytotelmata , Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1993, ISBN 3700121148 , together with Peter Krügel
  • Bibliography of lichens and lichens-dwelling fungi in Austria , Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1993, ISBN 3700121156 , together with Roman Türk, Josef Poelt
  • Basic ecological values ​​in Austria - a model for Europe? , Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1994, ISBN 3700121520 , together with Thomas Klestil, W. Blum, K. Burian, E. Christian
  • Reproductive biology of some Bignoniaceen in the Cerrado of Brazil , Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1993, ISBN 3700121172 , together with Albert D Stevens
  • The polyacetylenes in the Artemisia Vulgares group (Anthemideae / Compositae) , Verlag der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1994, ISBN 3700121717 , together with Bruno Wallnöfer
  • Biometric and karyosystematic studies on the polyploid complex Biscutella laevigata sl , Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1994, ISBN 3700121180 , together with Christiane König
  • Reprocutive morphology in Annonacea , Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1996, ISBN 3700121733 , together with P. Leins, C. Erbar, Hans Winkler
  • Ecological investigations on percids of the Upper Danube , Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1996, ISBN 3700125739 , together with Gerald Zauner, Hans Winkler
  • Deep Sea and extreme shallow-water habitats: affinities and adaptions , Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1996, ISBN 3700125747 , together with Franz Uiblein, Jörg Ott , Michael Stachowitsch, Hans Winkler
  • Austria's rust fungi. Catalogus Florae Austriae - III. Part, issue 1: Uredinales , publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 1997, ISBN 3700126506 , together with Josef Poelt, Peter Zwetko, Hans Winkler
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the corn mouse. Mus spicilegus Peteny, 1882 , publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 2000, ISBN 3700129408 , together with Unterholzner, Willenig, Bauer, Hans Winkler
  • Epiphytes. Plant diversity in the treetops , University of Leipzig 2001, ISBN 393417812X , together with Peggy Seltmann, Wilfried Morawetz, Jürke Grau, Ehrentraud Bayer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Steering Committee" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , TCR 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.esf.org
  2. ↑ a b “Well-known Leipzig botanist died” , University of Leipzig, March 15, 2007
  3. ^ "Deaths SAW Leipzig" , SAW Leipzig
  4. ↑ "Latin America Center: Workshop on the Mega City Project" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , idw, April 27, 2006 on BMBF (fona) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fona.de
  5. ^ "Reports from the treetops" , Daniel Sturm, March 2001

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personal data
SURNAME Morawetz, Wilfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th November 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Leoben , Styria
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2007
Place of death Leipzig