Cammerloher, Hermann |
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(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors) |
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Born: 1885, Vienna, Austria. Died: 1940, Vienna, Austria. |
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Botanist, educated at Vienna, where he took his Dr’s degree in 1910; 1910-11 Botanical Assistant at Triest; 1911-13 Assistant at Czernowitz. He accompanied Dr O. Porsch (see there) on the latter’s journey to Java in 1914.1 In active service during the war 1914-18; 1919-21 Assistant to Prof. Heinricher at Innsbruck; 1921-24 attached to the Buitenzorg Botanic Garden; from 1924 onwards at Vienna as University Lecturer and Assistant at the Botanical Institute; since 1932 Extraordinary Professor. Author of systematic papers on Cinnamomum, Loganiaceae, and of some others relating to his stay in the tropics.1 His interest was mainly in flower biology. |
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Java material for scientific researches in Europe collected from Febr. until May 1914.2 He might have collected in the years 1921-24 too. |
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(1) cf. Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, p. 90, 92, 102. E.g.: ‘Javanische Studien’ (Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 76, 1927, p. 57-65); on the images of plants on the Boroboedoer, cf. Natur 1923, p, 222-229 and Trop. Nat. 20, 1931, p. 141-152, 14 fig. (2) cf. Dammerman in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, p. 40-41. |
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Ber. D.B.G. 58, 1940, p. (18)-(26), incl. bibliogr. + portr. |