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Biographical data

 

Hackenberg, Karl Günther

 

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

 

Born: 1898, Barmen, Germany.

 

career:

Officer in the German army; in the years 1921-23 assistant on an estate at Sampit, SE. Borneo.

Diels named several plants after him.

 

Collecting localities:

1923. S. Borneo: environs of Sampit (May-Oct.).

Evidently he collected at Sabang (P. Weh, N of Sumatra) too, probably on his return to Germany.

 

collections:

Herb. Berl. [B]: c. 150 nos from Borneo;1 also from Sabang (P. Weh), e.g. Selaginella mayeri.

 

literature:

(1) L. Diels & K.G. Hackenberg: ‘Beiträge zur Vegetationskunde and Floristik von Süd-Borneo’ (Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 60, 1926, p. 291-316).

 

biographical data:

Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936.