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Bleissner, Anna Ida Franziska Brigitte (1917-1999)
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Anna Ida Franziska Brigitte
Last name
Bleissner
Initials
A.I.F.B.
Life Dates
1917 - 1999
Collecting Dates
1963 -
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
M, PRE, WIND
Countries
Southern Africa: South Africa
Associate(s)
Bleissner, Sabine (1943-) (daughter)
Giess, Anna Ida Franziska Brigitte (1917-1999) (later)
Giess, Johan Wilhelm Heinrich (1910-2000) (co-collector)
Scherz, A.I.F.B. (1917-) (née)
Volk, Otto Heinrich (1903-2000) (co-collector)
Giess, Anna Ida Franziska Brigitte (1917-1999) (later)
Giess, Johan Wilhelm Heinrich (1910-2000) (co-collector)
Scherz, A.I.F.B. (1917-) (née)
Volk, Otto Heinrich (1903-2000) (co-collector)
Biography
Namibian plant collector and botanical assistant. Brigitte Bleissner collected with O.H. Volk and H.J.W. Giess while visiting South West Africa with her daughter Sabine in 1963. She emigrated from Germany the following year and later married H.J.W. Giess, whom she assisted at the National Herbarium of Namibia until his retirement in 1980 and accompanied on many collecting trips.
References
Gunn, M. & Codd, L.E. Bot. Explor. S. Afr. (1981): 95;
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Anna Ida Franziska Brigitte
Last name
Bleissner
Initials
A.I.F.B.
Life Dates
1917 - 1999
Collecting Dates
1963 -
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
M, PRE, WIND
Countries
Southern Africa: South Africa
Associate(s)
Bleissner, Sabine (1943-) (daughter)
Giess, Anna Ida Franziska Brigitte (1917-1999) (later)
Giess, Johan Wilhelm Heinrich (1910-2000) (co-collector)
Scherz, A.I.F.B. (1917-) (née)
Volk, Otto Heinrich (1903-2000) (co-collector)
Giess, Anna Ida Franziska Brigitte (1917-1999) (later)
Giess, Johan Wilhelm Heinrich (1910-2000) (co-collector)
Scherz, A.I.F.B. (1917-) (née)
Volk, Otto Heinrich (1903-2000) (co-collector)
Biography
Namibian plant collector and botanical assistant. Brigitte Bleissner collected with O.H. Volk and H.J.W. Giess while visiting South West Africa with her daughter Sabine in 1963. She emigrated from Germany the following year and later married H.J.W. Giess, whom she assisted at the National Herbarium of Namibia until his retirement in 1980 and accompanied on many collecting trips.
References
Gunn, M. & Codd, L.E. Bot. Explor. S. Afr. (1981): 95;
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