HebererGR

Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Biographical data

Heberer, Gerhard Richard

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)

Born: 1901, Halle/S., Germany.

career:

Anthropologist, educated at the University of Halle/S. (D.Sc. 1924); University Assistant at Halle and Tübingen; in 1932 Private Lecturer there; from 1936 Extra-ordinary Professor in the University at Frankfurt/M.; from 1938-45 Professor of General Biology at Jena; since 1947 teaching anthropology at Göttingen.

Collecting localities:

He accompanied the expedition of Rensch to the Lesser Sunda Islands in 1927 (cf. I. Rensch-Maier in Fl. Mal. I, 1, also for Itinerary).¹ Together with W. Lehmann he undertook the anthropological part of the expedition and planned to make limnological studies besides.

collections:

He evidently collected some plants, at least some duplicates in Herb. Bog. [BO]. Diatoms were sent to von Faber at Buitenzorg.

literature:

(1) Author of some chapters in B. Rensch: ‘Eine biologische Reise nach den Kleinen Sunda-Inseln’ (Berlin 1930); ‘Die Inland Malaien von Lombok and Sumbawa’ (with W. Lehmann, Göttingen 1950).

biographical data:

Wer ist wer? ed. 12, 1955.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature Biographical data
	Heberer, Gerhard Richard
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 5: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Supplement I)
	Born: 1901, Halle/S., Germany.
	career: Anthropologist, educated at the University of Halle/S. (D.Sc. 1924); University Assistant at Halle and Tübingen; in 1932 Private Lecturer there; from 1936 Extra-ordinary Professor in the University at Frankfurt/M.; from 1938-45 Professor of General Biology at Jena; since 1947 teaching anthropology at Göttingen.
	Collecting localities: He accompanied the expedition of Rensch to the Lesser Sunda Islands in 1927 (cf. I. Rensch-Maier in Fl. Mal. I, 1, also for Itinerary).¹ Together with W. Lehmann he undertook the anthropological part of the expedition and planned to make limnological studies besides.
	collections: He evidently collected some plants, at least some duplicates in Herb. Bog. [BO]. Diatoms were sent to von Faber at Buitenzorg.
	literature: (1) Author of some chapters in B. Rensch: ‘Eine biologische Reise nach den Kleinen Sunda-Inseln’ (Berlin 1930); ‘Die Inland Malaien von Lombok and Sumbawa’ (with W. Lehmann, Göttingen 1950).
	biographical data: Wer ist wer? ed. 12, 1955.