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.[. 1990. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Springer-Verlag: Berlín, Heidelberg, Alemania] He was a member of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.
Career
Kubitzki was born in
Niesky, Germany, and studied biology and geology at the universities of Innsbruck, Göttingen, and
Kiel University.
His doctoral work at Kiel was in
Quaternary studies (1960). He then became an associate professor at the Universidad Austral de Chile in
Valdivia, southern Chile (1961–1963). He pursued further studies at the 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).
Kubitzki died on 5 December 2022, near Hamburg aged 89.
Work
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-).
Selected publications
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. 1982a. Lorenthaceae. Volumes 2 & 4 of Flora de Venezuela. Inst. Botanico
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. 1982b. Lauraceae I (Aniba & Aiouea). No. 31 of Flora neotropica monograph. Volume 1 de Lauraceae. New York Botanical Garden, 125 pp.
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The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants (Springer-Verlag, Berlin)
Eponyms
- Genus
- Species
See also
Citations
Sources
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Simpson, DP. 1979. Cassell's Latin Dictionary. 5, London: Cassell Ltd., 883. .
