Klaus Kubitzki

Klaus Kubitzki
Born 1933
Niesky, Oberlausitz
Nationality German
Fields Botany
Institutions University of Hamburg
Alma mater Kiel University
Known for Kubitzki system
Author abbrev. (botany) Kubitzki

Klaus Kubitzki (born 1933) is a German botanist. He is an 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 is a member of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.[3]

Career

Born in Niesky, Oberlausitz, he undertook studies in biology and geology at the universities of Innsbruck, Goettingen 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 Muenster (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]

Work

Kubitzky'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-).[5]

Selected publications

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

Eponyms

Genus
Species

See also

References

  1. University of Hamburg -Klaus Kubitzki
  2. klaus Kubitzki (ed.). 1990. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Springer-Verlag: Berlín, Heidelberg, Alemania
  3. ASPT: Klaus Kubitzki
  4. JStor Global Plants: Klaus Kubitzki
  5. JStor Global Plants: Klaus Kubitzki
  6. Taxon 35(1): 165 (1986), nom. nov. (IK)
  7. Phytologia 48(3): 224 1981 (IK)
  8. Brittonia 50(1): 51 1998 (IK)
  9. "Author Query for 'Kubitzki'". International Plant Names Index.

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