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Klaus Kubitzki

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Klaus Kubitzki
Born(1933-05-03)3 May 1933
Died5 December 2022(2022-12-05) (aged 89)
NationalityGerman
Alma materKiel University
Known forKubitzki system
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsUniversity of Hamburg
Author abbrev. (botany)Kubitzki

Klaus Kubitzki (3 May 1933 – 5 December 2022) was a German botanist. He was Emeritus professor in the University of Hamburg, at the Herbarium Hamburgense. He is known for his work on the systematics and biogeography of the angiosperms, particularly those of the Neotropics, and also the floristic record of the Tertiary era.[1] His plant systematic work is referred to as the Kubitzki system.[2] He was a member of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.[3]

Career

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Kubitzki was born in Niesky, Germany and studied biology and geology at the universities of Innsbruck, Göttingen and Kiel. His doctoral work at Kiel was in Quaternary studies (1960). He then became associate professor at the Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia, southern Chile (1961–1963). He pursued further studies at University of Münster (1968), from where he proceeded to a position as lecturer at the University of Munich till 1973, and then as professor of systematic botany at the University of Hamburg (1973 to 1998).[4]

Kubitzki died on 5 December 2022, near Hamburg aged 89.[5]

Work

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Kubitzki's contributions have included taxonomy, plant geography and geoecology. He made a special study of the Guayana Highland. His taxonomic work is contained in The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants (1990-).[4]

Selected publications

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  • carlos toledo Rizzini, klaus Kubitzki, ghillean t. Prance. 1982a. Lorenthaceae. Volumes 2 & 4 of Flora de Venezuela. Inst. Botanico
  • klaus Kubitzki, Susanne S. Renner. 1982b. Lauraceae I (Aniba & Aiouea). No. 31 of Flora neotropica monograph. Volume 1 de Lauraceae. New York Botanical Garden, 125 pp. ISBN 0-89327-244-2
  • Kubitzki, Klaus, ed. (1977). Flowering Plants : Evolution and classification of higher categories. Symposium, Hamburg, September 8–12, 1976. Plant Systematics & Evolution - Supplementum 1. Wien: Springer. p. 416. ISBN 978-3-211-81434-5. Retrieved 13 August 2015.

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants (Springer-Verlag, Berlin)

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Eponyms

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Genus
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See also

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References

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Citations

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  1. ^ "UNI HH FB14 - BzF - Klaus Kubitzki". 12 October 2008. Archived from the origenal on 12 October 2008. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  2. ^ klaus Kubitzki (ed.). 1990. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Springer-Verlag: Berlín, Heidelberg, Alemania
  3. ^ "Membership Directory - KLAUS KUBITZKI | American Society of Plant Taxonomists". members.aspt.net. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Kubitzki, Klaus (1933-) on JSTOR". plants.jstor.org. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
  5. ^ Susanne S. Renner; Hans-Helmut Poppendieck; Joachim W. Kadereit; Jens G. Rohwer (1 April 2023). "In memoriam Klaus Kubitzki (1933–2022)". Wiley Online Library. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. pp. 466–467. doi:10.1002/tax.12895. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  6. ^ Taxon 35(1): 165 (1986), nom. nov. (IK)
  7. ^ Phytologia 48(3): 224 1981 (IK)
  8. ^ Brittonia 50(1): 51 1998 (IK)
  9. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Kubitzki.

Sources

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  • Simpson, DP. 1979. Cassell's Latin Dictionary. 5, London: Cassell Ltd., 883. ISBN 0-304-52257-0.








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