LC control no. | n 81076117 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Stopp, Klaus |
Variant(s) | Stopp, K. (Klaus) |
Birth date | 19260711 |
Death date | 20060606 |
Place of birth | Radebeul (Germany) |
Place of death | Mainz (Germany) |
Field of activity | Ethnobotany Cartography |
Affiliation | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität |
Profession or occupation | Ethnobotanists |
Found in | Karpologische 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) |