Markgraf, Friedrich (1897-1987)

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Friedrich
Last name
Markgraf
Initials
F.
Life Dates
1897 - 1987
Collecting Dates
1924 - 1964
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Bryophytes
Fungi
Pteridophytes
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
B (main), M (main), Z (main), BP, E, F, MO, P
Countries
West African Islands: Canary IslandsEurope: United Kingdom, Albania, Germany, Ireland, ItalyTemperate South America: ArgentinaBrazilian region: BrazilWestern Asia: Turkey
Associate(s)
Mattfeld, Johannes (1895-1951) (co-collector)
Pieper (fl. 1924) (co-collector)
Wiedmann, Walter (1926-) (student)
Huber-Morath, Arthur (1901-1990) (co-collector)
Biography
German botanist Friedrich Markgraf was an authority on the flora of Albania.

After obtaining his doctorate from Berlin in 1922, Markgraf served on the staff of the Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Museum until 1943, serving as Professor of Botany from 1934. He then spent two years at Müncheberg and in 1947-1957 at the Botanical Garden in Munich. He also served as chair of the German Botanical Society. After a year in Ankara, Turkey, he took up his final position as professor of botany and director of the botanical garden in Zurich, where he remained form 1958-1967.

Markgraf conducted several collecting expeditions to Albania. He published the works Pflanzen aus Albanien and Pflanzengeograhie von Albanien in 1931 and 1932, respectively.

A festschrift for Markgraf was published in 1967 in the Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie (vol. 86).

Sources:
T. Eckardt and O. Rohweder (eds), 1967, Botanische Jahrbüher, 86: vii-xxiv.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 403; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. M (1976): 503, 515; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. N-R (1983): 683;
Markgraf, Friedrich (1897-1987)
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