Gustav Wilhelm Körber (10 January 1817, Hirschberg – 27 January 1885, Breslau) was a German lichenologist.
He studied natural sciences in Breslau and Berlin, obtaining his PhD in 1839 with the thesis De gonidiis lichenum.[1] After graduation, he served as an instructor at the "Elisabethanum" in Breslau, and from 1862, worked as a private teacher. In 1873 he became an associate professor at the University of Breslau.[2][3]
Best known for his investigations of lichen species native to Silesia, he also examined specimens found in central and southeastern Europe as well as lichen collected from Mediterranean and Arctic regions. Körber is credited with introducing the term muriform in an 1855 publication to describe the distinctive multi-chambered spores of the lichen genera Rhizocarpon and Umbilicaria, as well as the terms polari-dyblastae and amphithecium in later publications.[4] He published the exsiccata Lichenes selecti Germanici. The genera Koerberia (within the Placynthiaceae family) and Koerberiella (in the Lecideaceae family) are named after him.[2][5]
Selected works edit
- Grundriss der kryptogamen-kunde, 1848 – Outline of cryptogamic species.
- Systema lichenum Germaniae: Die Flechten Deutschlands, 1855 – "Systema lichenum Germaniae": German lichens.
- Parerga lichenologica: Ergänzungen zum Systema lichenum, 1865 – "Parerga lichenologica": Supplement to "Systema lichenum".
- Lichenen aus Istrien, Dalmatien u. Albanien: (with Emanuel Weiss), 1867 – Lichens of Istria, Dalmatia and Albania.
- Lichenen Spitzbergens und Novaja-Semlja's, auf der graf Wilczek'schen expedition, 1872 – Lichens of Spitzbergen and Novaya Zemlya, from the Wilczek expedition.[6]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Online Books Online Books by Gustav Wilhelm Koerber
- ^ a b JSTOR Global Plants (biography)
- ^ Fakultät für Biologie und Psychologie Albrecht-von-Haller-Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften
- ^ Mitchell, M.E. (2014). "De Bary's legacy: the emergence of differing perspectives on lichen symbiosis" (PDF). Huntia. 15 (1): 5–22 [14].
- ^ 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. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
- ^ Google Search publications)
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Körb.
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