(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

Born: 1881, Trieste, Austria.

career:

Was appointed Extraordinary Professor (subsequently Professor) of Botany in the University of Berlin in 1919; since 1923 Director of the Botanical Institute and of the Botanic Garden of the University at Rostock. In 1928-29 he made a study tour to Ceylon and the Dutch East Indies.¹

Author of many plant anatomical and physiological papers.²

Dendrobium guttenbergii J.J.Sm. was named after him.

Collecting localities:

In the Dutch East Indies (Nov. 1928-April 1929) he visited: Java, Noesa Kambangan, Bali (Lesser Sunda Isls) and Sumatra (Fort de Kock and Brastagi, resp. in West Coast and East Coast) (Apr. 1929).

collections:

Herb. Rostock. He collected some plants in Sumatra.

In Hort. Rostock: Sumatra orchids.

literature:

(1) cf. Dammerman in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, p. 49.

(2) e.g. ‘Studien an Pflanzen der Sunda-Inseln’ (Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 44, 1934, p. 1-62, pl. 1-12).

biographical data:

Backer, Verkl.Woordenb., 1936.

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