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Stopp, Klaus

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Personal name headingStopp, Klaus
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Variant(s)Stopp, K. (Klaus)
Birth date19260711
Death date20060606
Place of birthRadebeul (Germany)
Place of deathMainz (Germany)
Field of activityEthnobotany Cartography
AffiliationJohannes Gutenberg-Universität
Profession or occupationEthnobotanists
Found inKarpologische Studien I und II, 1950.
Information from 678 field, converted July 5, 2014 (Dr.; Professor at the Institut für Botanik und Pharmakognosie der Universität Mainz)
Printed birth and baptismal certificates of the German Americans, volume 7, 2014: page 11 (Klaus Stopp was born 11 July 1926 in a suburb of Radebeul, Germany; attended University of Mainz where he studied botany and pharmacy and gained his doctorate in 1949. Became a specialist in ethnobotany and in 1962 he was appointed professor of pharmacognosy at the Johnnes-Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz, educating young pharmacists until his retirement in 1988. A collector of maps since 1955, he authored works on German maps and cartobibliography. He also authored a major technical study of the birth and baptismal certificates of Pennsylvania Germans printed in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Stopp died suddenly on 6 June 2006 at his home in Mainz)