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Hansjörg Eichler
Born(1916-04-01)1 April 1916[1]
Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg[2]
Died22 June 1992(1992-06-22) (aged 76)[1]
Berlin[1]
CitizenshipGerman, Australian
Alma materBerlin-Dahlem Botanical Museum University of Halle-Wittenberg[2]
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsNationaal 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 (which later became the Australian National Herbarium), within the CSIRO division of Plant Industry, a position held from 1974 until his retirement in 1981.[6] In Canberra, he founded the journal Brunonia.[2]

In 1993 the Australian Systematic Botany Society established the Hansjörg Eichler Research Fund in his honour.[3] His personal herbarium of over 24, 000 specimens was divided between the State Herbarium of South Australia and the Australian National Herbarium.[3]

Work

Selected publications

  • (1958) Revision der Ranunculaceen Malesiens. Stuttgart. (Trove listing - book)
  • & Black, J.M. (1965) Supplement to J.M. Black's Flora of South Australia. (2nd Edition, 1943-1957). W.L. Hawes.

Published names

APNI gives some 91 published names.[7] IPNI (with duplication) lists 152.[8]

Published names given by APNI (Australian Plant Name Index)

Honours

Some pPlants named for him

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, Australian National Herbarium, Biographical Notes: Eichler, Hansjörg (1916 - 1992)
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j German wikipedia article: Hansjörg Eichler
  3. ^ a b c Trove: Eichler, Hansjörg (1916-1992)
  4. ^ a b Encyclopaedia of Australian Science: Eichler, Hansjörg (1916 - 1992)
  5. ^ International Plant Names Index.  H.Eichler.
  6. ^ a b Spanish wikipedia article: Hansjörg Eichler
  7. ^ "APNI: Search plant names for author H.Eichler".
  8. ^ "IPNI: Search plant names for author H.Eichler".
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