Marcel Gustav Baumann-Bodenheim | |
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Born | January 26, 1920 |
Died | February 18, 1996 76) | (aged
Citizenship | Switzerland |
Known for | Botanist in New Caledonia |
Marcel Gustav Baumann-Bodenheim (January 26, 1920 – February 18, 1996) was a Swiss botanist. [1] His botanical author abbreviation is "Baum.-Bod." [2]
Baumann-Bodenheim was born January 26, 1920 in Baden in Germany the moved to Wettingen in Switzerland as a child and where he started studied to become a teacher. [3] He then attended the University of Zurich from 1940 until 1945 where he studied biology and obtained his doctorate in botany. [3]
He started his career in 1946 when he obtained a post as an exchange assistant at the National Herbarium of the Netherlands where he also met his wife to be. [4]
He travelled with his family to New Caledonia an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean from 1950 until 1952 for a research expedition. [3] He collected 80,000 specimens with around 15,500 herbarium specimens. [3] The collection took many more years to process than to collect with many new genera and species being described. [3] By 1988 he had complete the management of the collection and started working on producing the planted 24 volumes of Systematik der Flora von Neu-Caledonien. [3] His collection was large enough that is has been distributed to the herbariums of over 15 university's world wide. [3] He discovered five species of Nothofagus which filled in a gap in the know distribution between New Zealand and New Guinea. [4] He later took up teaching biology at a secondary school in Zurich but continued to work on the flora of New Caledonia in his personal time. [4]
He succumbed to Parkinson's disease and was forced to retire early and was bedbound for the last eight years of his life until his death February 18, 1996. [3] He died at his home in Herrliberg. [4] By his death he had completed 9 of his 24 planned volumes of Systematik der Flora von Neu-Caledonien. [4]
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