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Beat Ernst Leuenberger
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The Botanic Garden and the Botanical Museum mourns for Dr. Beat Leuenberger
We mourn for our friend and colleague Beat Leuenberger, who passed away on Thursday, 20 May 2010, after a long period of disease. Beat Leuenberger worked for our institution as a scientific employee since 1 November 1976 and in the recent years he was responsible for the tropical and subtropical plant collections in the greenhouses as head of the division. The Botanic Garden lacks his human commitment and his scientific expertise. He will always be in our hearts and memories.
- Senior Curator, Head of Department of subtropical and tropical living collections in glasshouses. Specimen based documentation, identification and verification based on garden herbarium including elaboration of nomenclature data for the living collections database.
- Curator of phanerogam families (chiefly tropical-subtropical dicots) in herbarium.
Curriculum:
Born 1946 in Burgdorf, Switzerland. Schools in Burgdorf. 1966-1975: Studies at the
University of Bern, Switzerland, and Heidelberg, Germany. 1972 diploma (Lic. phil. nat.)
University of Bern, Switzerland. 1975 Dr. rer. nat., University of Heidelberg. 1975-1976:
Assistant at the Systematic-geobotanical Institute of the University of Bern. 1976 to
present: Curator at Botanical Garden & Botanical Museum Berlin Dahlem, 1976-1978
Curator in herbarium section. 1979 to April 2010: Senior Curator in living collections
section. Retired 30 April 2010.
- Long term interest in Cactaceae, monographic studies, revisions, typification, taxonomic history (Pereskia, Maihuenia, Blossfeldia, Opuntia ser. Armatae, south American Harrisia and other mainly South American genera).
- Flora of the Guianas (Cactaceae, Zygophyllaceae).
- Flora of Argentina, contributor to Cactaceae.
- Flora of Chile, contributor to Cactaceae.
- Neotropical flora and vegetation, succulents in general.
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