Albrecht_Zimmermann

Albrecht Zimmermann

Albrecht Zimmermann

German botanist and mycologist (1860–1931)

"Zimm." redirects here. For other uses, see Zimm.

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;

The standard author abbreviation Zimm. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[8]

References

  1. [1]
    "Zimmermann, Albrecht Wilhelm Philipp (1860-1931) on JSTOR". plants.jstor.org. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
  2. [2]
    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.
  3. [3]
    "Zimmermann, Albrecht Wilhelm Philipp (1860-1931) on JSTOR". plants.jstor.org. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
  4. [4]
    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.
  5. [5]
    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.
  6. [6]
    "Zimmermannia Pax | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  7. [7]
    "Zimmermanniopsis Radcl.-Sm. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  8. [8]
    International Plant Names Index.  Zimm.


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