Albrecht Zimmermann
German botanist and mycologist (1860–1931)
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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
- Der Kaffee, Deutscher Auslandsverlag, 1926, 204 p.
- Botanical microtechnique, 1893, (translated by J. E. Humphrey) 296 p.[4]
Honours
He 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]
