Johannes Gottfried Hallier

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Johannes (Hans) Gottfried Hallier (6 July 1868 – 10 March 1932) was a German

botanist born in Jena
.

He studied botany and

.

In 1894, Hallier became the second European to climb Mount Kelam (after a certain Dr. Gürtler) and the first to collect specimens of the pitcher plant Nepenthes clipeata.[1] He ascended the summit 5 times in January and February of that year.[2] After his return to Germany, he served as an assistant in the Botanical Institute at the University of Munich. Beginning in 1898 Hallier worked at the Botanical Museum in Hamburg.[3]

From 1903 to 1904 he took part in a scientific expedition to

Rijksherbarium in Leiden.[4]

He died on 10 March 1932 in Oegstgeest, Netherlands.

He is credited for introducing a

phylogenetic classification of flowering plants that became known as the "Hallier system".[5][6] He published several works on the botany of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), including treatises on the flora of Borneo
.

Hallier is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of lizard, Tytthoscincus hallieri.[7]

Selected writings

  • Indonesische Acanthaceen, 1897 - Acanthaceae native to Indonesia. (in German).
  • Die indonesischen Aeschynanthusarten des Herbariums zu Buitenzorg, 1897 - Indonesian Aeschynanthus types from the Buitenzorg herbaria. (in German).
  • Zur Convolvulaceenflora Amerika's, 1899 - American Convolvulaceae. (in German).
  • Neue Vorschläge zur botanischen Nomenklatur, 1905 - New proposal involving botanical nomenclature. (in German).[8]


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Source

Parts of this article are based on a translation of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.

External links

  • IPNI List of plants described & co-described by Hallier.