Abstract
Citation: Lack H. W. & Raus Th. 2020: Bernhard Zepernick (1926–2019). – Willdenowia 50: 165–171. doi: https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.50.50202Version of record first published online on 24 April 2020 ahead of inclusion in August 2020 issue.
Highlights
BioOne sees sustainable scholarly publishing as an inherently collaborative enterprise connecting authors, nonprofit publishers, academic institutions, research libraries, and research funders in the common goal of maximizing access to critical research
Bernhard Zepernick (Fig. 1) passed away on 7 December 2019 at the age of 93 in Berlin. He was a retired curator at the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin (BGBM) and the co-author of a very useful collection of materials on the history of the institution to which he belonged from 1974 until his retirement in 1991
A man of broad interests, among them ethnobotany and medicinal plants, he was for several years in charge of BGBM’s public relations
Summary
Version of record first published online on 24 April 2020 ahead of inclusion in August 2020 issue. Bernhard Zepernick (Fig. 1) passed away on 7 December 2019 at the age of 93 in Berlin He was a retired curator at the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin (BGBM) and the co-author of a very useful collection of materials on the history of the institution to which he belonged from 1974 until his retirement in 1991. Interested in big game with the dream of becoming one day the director of a zoological garden, BZ studied zoology and botany at the Freie Universität Berlin in the years 1956 – 1962 Among others he attended the botany lessons given by Theo Eckardt (1910 – 1977), professor of botany (Gerloff 1978), who was to be appointed in 1964 director of the BGBM, an institution independent from the university. He possessed a deep interest in the history of science, which resulted among others in a paper on the extra-European travels of Adolf Engler (1844 – 1930; e.g. Lack 2000) and in three more papers on colonial botany
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a callDisclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.
