Hans Höppner
German botanist
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Hans Höppner (8 February 1873, in Bremen – 24 April 1946, in Krefeld) was a German botanist and entomologist.
He worked as a secondary school teacher in the city of Krefeld.[1] Here, he oversaw the local natural science museum, its herbarium and also worked on the museum's entomological collections.[2] Höppner issued the exsiccata Orchidaceae exsiccatae. Mitteleuropäische Orchideen (1917–1932).[3]
Known for investigations of flora native to the Lower Rhine, he also made numerous taxonomic contributions within the botanical family Orchidaceae.[4] In the field of entomology, he published a regional study on bees called Die Bienenfauna der Dünen und Weserabhänge zwischen Uesen und Baden (1901).[5]
Principal works
- Flora des Niederrheins : zum gebrauch in schulen und afu ausflügen, 1907 - Flora of the Lower Rhine.
- Flora des Westfälisch-Rheinischen Industriegebietes unter Einschluß der Rheinischen Bucht, 1926 - Flora of the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area, including the Rhine basin.[6]