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Biographical data

 

Detmer, Wilhelm

 

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

 

Born: 1850, Hamburg, Germany. Died: 1930, Hamburg, Germany.

 

career:

Educated at Leipsic, where he took his Ph.Dr’s degree in 1871; since 1875 Professor of Plant Physiology and Soil Science at Jena. He made a study tour to Java, leaving Europe in the autumn of 1904 and returning in April 1905.1 

 

Collecting localities:

He visited G. Salak, G. Papandajan, Tjibodas, Depok, all in W. Java (1904), and in Jan. 1905 the island of Noesa Kambangan (S of Centr. Java).

 

collections:

Possibly some collections were made.

 

literature:

(1) Author of ‘Botanische and landwirtschaftliche Studien auf Java’ (Jena 1907). cf. Dammerman in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, p. 29.

 

biographical data:

Ber. D.B.G. 49, 1931, p. (126)-(138), incl. bibliogr. + portr.