Heinz Ellenberg
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Heinz Ellenberg (1 August 1913 in Harburg (Elbe) – 2 May 1997 in
.Life
Ellenberg's father (a school teacher) died during World War I in 1914. From 1920 to 1932 Ellenberg studied in Hanover, where his interest in local flora and fauna was established, and where he came in contact with Reinhold Tüxen.
In 1932 he moved to Montpellier, where he started his studies of ecology under the direction of Swiss ecologist Josias Braun-Blanquet. Later he studied botany, zoology, chemistry and geology in Heidelberg, Hanover and Göttingen, where he obtained a doctorate in Biology in 1938 in Göttingen under Franz Firbas.
After completing his doctorate he worked at the central office for vegetation mapping in
After the war he served as an assistant of Heinrich Walter in Stuttgart. In 1953 he became a professor at the University of Hamburg. From 1958 he was a director at Department of Botany at the ETH Zurich.
Heinz Ellenberg was among the first to experimentally show the importance of a distinction between
In 1966 he moved to the
Personal life
In 1941 he married Charlotte Metelmann. After retiring, he ran a farmhouse.[citation needed] In 1996 he published a revised edition of "Vegetation Mitteleuropas mit den Alpen in ökologischer, dynamischer und historischer Sicht".
Bibliography
- ^ Ellenberg, H. (1953) Physiologisches und ökologisches Verhalten derselben Pflanzenarten. Berichte der Deutschen botanischen Gesellschaft, 65: 351-362.
- ^ "IAVS - Honorary Members".
- Vegetation Mitteleuropas mit den Alpen in ökologischer, dynamischer und historischer Sicht. Stuttgart: Ulmer 1996 (5. Auflage; 1. Auflage: 1963), ISBN 3-8252-8104-3
- Zeigerwerte nach Ellenberg|Zeigerwerte von Pflanzen in Mitteleuropa. - Scripta Geobotanica 1974, 1979 und 1992, ISBN 3-88452-518-2
- Bauernhaus und Landschaft in ökologischer und historischer Sicht. Stuttgart Ulmer 1990, ISBN 3-8001-3087-4
- Unkrautgemeinschaften als Zeiger für Klima und Boden. Landwirtschaftliche Pflanzensoziologie I. Stuttgart: Ulmer 1950
- (co-author) Vegetation Südosteuropas. München: Urban & Fischer 1974, ISBN 3-437-30168-3
- Wiesen und Weiden und ihre standörtliche Bewertung. Stuttgart: Ulmer 1952
- Aufgaben und Methoden der Vegetationskunde. Stuttgart: Ulmer 1956
- (Ed.) Ökosystemforschung. Heidelberg, Berlin, New York: Springer Verlag 1973
- Ökologische Beiträge zur Umweltgestaltung. Stuttgart: Ulmer 1983