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Penzig, Albert Julius Otto (1856-1923)

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)
Albert Julius Otto
Last name
Penzig
Initials
A.J.O.
Life Dates
1856 - 1929
Collecting Dates
1891 - 1910
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae Bryophytes Fungi Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
GE (main), ROPV (main), B, BO, DBN, DOMO, G, GH, K, L, MOD, PAD, PAV, PR, W, Z
Countries
Tropical Africa: EritreaMalesian region: IndonesiaEurope: ItalyIndian region: Sri Lanka
Associate(s)
Penzig, A.G.O.(later)Penzig, O.A.J.(error)Penzig, Otto(synonym)Pirotta, Pietro Romualdo (1853-1936)(co-author)Raap, H. (fl. 1894-1897)(co-collector)Raciborski, Marjan (1863-1917)(co-collector)Treub, Melchior (1851-1910)(co-collector)
Biography
German mycologist, professor at the University of Genoa from 1887. Penzig was born in Samitz, Silesia and completed his education in Breslau. He joined the Botanic Garden of Padua in Italy in 1879 and after a period teaching in Modena (1882) he was appointed director of the agricultural station at the university there. He moved to Genoa in 1887 as Professor of Botany. Penzig travelled to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and the East Indies in the late 1890s, collecting plants in Java with the director of the Buitenzorg Botanic Gardens, Melchior Treub. He also spent time in the laboratories at Buitenzorg studying Myxomycetes. The genus Penzigia Saccardo honours him.

Sources:
M.J. van Steenis Kruseman, "Cyclopedia of Collectors", Flora Malesiana, online edn:
http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/FMCollectors/P/PenzigO.htm.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 487; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. N-R (1983): 665;
Penzig, Albert Julius Otto (1856-1923)
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