Maximilian Weigend

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Maximilian Weigend (born September 25, 1969, in Erbendorf) is a German botanist. His botanical author abbreviation is "Weigend". [1] [2]

As a student, Weigend received first prize in 1987 and 1989 as part of the Federal President's history competition on the subject of environmental history and in 1992 from the South African Phycological Society for his studies on the phytochemistry of South African macroalgae. [3]

In 1993 he graduated from the South African University of Natal-Pietermaritzburg and then moved to the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. As part of his research, he traveled to Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru before commencing in July 1997 with his dissertation Nasa and the conquest of South America – Systematic Rearrangements in Loasaceae Juss. He received his doctorate degree magna cum laude. As part of this work, Weigend presented a complete revision of the flower nettle family ( Loasaceae ) and re-described numerous genera and species, but due to a technical error the taxa had to be revalidated in 2006. [4] He received several awards for his dissertation. [3]

From 1999, Weigend began research on the genera Ribes and Desfontainia ; in 2000 he became an assistant professor at the Institute for Systematic Botany and Phytogeography at the Free University of Berlin. [3] In 2011 he was appointed to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, where he succeeded Wilhelm Barthlott as director of the Botanical Garden, Bonn . [5] Since then he has also been deputy director of the Nees Institute for Plant Biodiversity. [6]

Weigend has edited the Loasaceae for several standard works, such as in 2001 for the Flora de Colombia and in 2004 for the sixth volume of the Families and Genera of Vascular Plants .

Weigend is married and the father of two children. [5]

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References

  1. "Author abbreviation 'Weigend'". International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries; Australian National Botanic Gardens . Retrieved July 28, 2023.
  2. "Maximilian Weigend". International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries; Australian National Botanic Gardens . Retrieved July 21, 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 Weigend, Maximilian (2001). "Loasaceae". Flora de Colombia (in Spanish). 22. Bogotá: Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia: 99–100. ISSN   0120-4351.
  4. International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (Vienna Code), Art. 30.5, Ex. 10, Online
  5. 1 2 "Maximilian Weigends Homepage". Botanische Gärten der Universität Bonn. Archived from the original on March 1, 2016. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
  6. "Personal page". Nees Institute for Plant Biodiversity.