Hansjörg Eichler
Hansjörg Eichler | |
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| Born | 1 April 1916[1] |
| Died | 22 June 1992 (aged 76)[1] |
| Citizenship | German, Australian |
| Alma mater | Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Museum University of Halle-Wittenberg[2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany |
| Institutions | Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum Naturalis in Leiden, State Herbarium of South Australia, Australian National Herbarium[1] |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | H.Eichler |
Hansjörg Eichler (April 1, 1916 - June 22, 1992) was a German-born botanist, educated in Europe, who worked in Europe and Australia, and whose greatest contribution was to Australian botany.[3][4]
The standard author abbreviation H.Eichler is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]
Life
Hansjörg Eichler, the son of architect, Gustav Eichler, and painter, Anna Eichler (née Sellin), was born in Ravensburg in 1916.[2] At the Ravensburg school, one of his teachers was Karl Bertsch, a leading Württemberg botanist, who stimulated his interest in botany and took him on private botanical excursions.[2] In 1936, the family moved to Berlin, and Eichler started working at the Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem (as a volunteer) under the tutelage of Friedrich Ludwig E Diels, at the same time having enrolled at the University of Berlin, to study botany and chemistry.[2] The work at the Botanisches Museum ceased in 1943 when a bombing raid wrecked the museum.[2] In 1944, he was exempted from war service to allow him both to study and work at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Kulturpflanzenforschung (now the Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung) in Vienna.[1]
After the war (1946-1949), he was able to continue his studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, and, in 1950, received in Doctorate in Natural Sciences for a thesis on the floristic and phyto-oenological investegations of the Hakel.[2] He married Marie-Louise Möhring in 1953, and went to Parma, and thence to the Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum Naturalis in Leiden, to work on Ranunculaceae.[2][6]
In 1955, he was appointed the first Keeper of the State Herbarium of South Australia,[4] and then curator of the Herbarium Australiense, within the CSIRO division of Plant Industry, a position held from 1974 until his death 1992.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, Australian National Herbarium, Biographical Notes: Eichler, Hansjörg (1916 - 1992)
- ^ a b c d e f g h German wikipedia article: Hansjörg Eichler
- ^ Trove: Eichler, Hansjörg (1916-1992)
- ^ a b c Encyclopaedia of Australian Science: Eichler, Hansjörg (1916 - 1992)
- ^ International Plant Names Index. H.Eichler.
- ^ Spanish wikipedia article: Hansjörg Eichler
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