Philipp Wilhelm Albrecht Zimmermann (23 April 1860, in Braunschweig – 22 February 1931, in Berlin) was a German botanist.[1] He was a Professor of Botany at several different Universities (such as Leipzig and Tübingen).[2] He was a botanist and collector of fungi and spermatophytes, who worked in Indonesia and Tanzania from 1902 to 1919. He moved to Indonesia in 1896 and studied applied botany.[3] In 1902 he moved to Africa to join the Amani Research Institute that was established that year. He returned to Germany after World War I in 1920. He wrote about the cultivation of coffee among other things related to botany, but most of his writings were destroyed during World War II.[1]
Works
edit- Der Kaffee, Deutscher Auslandsverlag, 1926, 204 p.
- Botanical microtechnique, 1893, (translated by J. E. Humphrey) 296 p.[4]
Honours
editHe has been honoured in the naming of several plant taxa including;
- Zimmermanniella which is a genus of fungi in the family Phyllachoraceae by Paul Christoph Hennings in 1902.[5]
- Neozimmermannia by Sijfert Hendrik Koorders in 1907, (a genus of fungi) which is now a synonym for Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (in Glomerellaceae family)
- Zimmermannia by Ferdinand Albin Pax in 1910, (a genus of Euphorbiaceae, Phyllanthaceae) which is a synonym of Meineckia.[6]
- Zimmermanniopsis by Alan Radcliffe-Smith in 1990 (another genus of Euphorbiaceae, Phyllanthaceae) which is also a synonym of Meineckia.[7]
References
edit- ^ a b "Zimmermann, Albrecht Wilhelm Philipp (1860-1931) on JSTOR". plants.jstor.org. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
- ^ "Zimmermann, Albrecht Wilhelm Philipp (1860-1931) on JSTOR". plants.jstor.org. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
- ^ Zimmermann A. (1896). Botanical microtechnique: a hand-book of methods for the preparation, staining, and microscopical investigation of vegetable structures. London: Constable. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.114795.
- ^ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58. Archived from the original on March 18, 2009.
- ^ "Zimmermannia Pax | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
- ^ "Zimmermanniopsis Radcl.-Sm. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Zimm.
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