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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.
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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
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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
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