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

Born: 1875, Braunschweig, Germany. Died: 1932, Berlin, Germany.

career:

Took his Ph. Dr’s degree at Bonn in 1899; since 1908 Professor of Botany at Leipsic and subsequently from 1916 onwards at the Agricultural College, Berlin; in the latter place in addition Director of the Botanical Institute of the said College. He made a voyage to Java and stayed at Buitenzorg from Sept. 1909-March 1910.¹ His sojourn in the tropics resulted in some papers.²

collections:

He collected at least at Depok (W. Java, 1910) (cf. Rec. Trav. Bot. néerl. 15, p. 41). The cited material was sent to H. Hallier, then at Leiden [L].

literature:

(1) cf. Dammerman in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, p. 34.

(2) H. Miehe: ‘Javanische Studien’ (Abh. Math. Phys. Kl. Kön. Sächs. Ges. Wiss. 32, 1911, p. 299-431, 26 textfig.); ‘Tabakbau in den Vorstenlanden’ (Tropenpflanzer 15, 1911, p. 467-469, 559-569, 605-628); ‘Ameisenpflanzen’ (Handwörterbuch d. Naturwiss. 2nd ed. l, 1931, p. 22-231).

biographical data:

Ber. D.B.G. 50, 1932, p. 87, (163)-(170), incl. bibliogr. + portr.; Wer ist’s, ed. 1.

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