| LC control no. | n 85096202 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Lang, G. (Gerhard), 1924- |
| Variant(s) | Lang, Gerhard, 1924-2016 |
| Birth date | 1924-10-21 |
| Death date | 2016-06-19 |
| Place of birth | Ravensburg (Germany) |
| Place of death | Biberach an der Riss (Germany) |
| Field of activity | Botany Paleoecology College teaching Academic writing |
| Affiliation | Universität Freiburg im Breisgau Universität Göttingen Landessammlungen für Naturkunde Karlsruhe Universität Karlsruhe Universität Bern |
| Profession or occupation | Botanists Natural history museum curators College teachers Authors |
| Found in | His Die submersen Makrophyten des Bodensees, 1981: t.p. (G. Lang) Kürsch. Gel. Kal., 1983 (Lang, Gerhard; Dr. rer. nat.; o. UProf., Dir. d. Syst.-Geobot. Inst. u. des Bot. Garten d. U. Bern; b. 10/21/24) Quaternary vegetation dynamics of Europe, 2023 : title page (Gerhard Lang, Brigitta Ammann, Karl-Ernst Behre, Willy Tinner editors) page 687 (Gerhard Lang was Professor of Geobotany at the University of Bern. He studied biology, chemistry and physics at the University of Freiburg in Breisgau. After his PhD in biology with Franz Firbas at the University of Göttingen, co-supervised by Harry Godwin at the University of Cambridge, he was curator at the Museum of Natural History in Karlsruhe and Adjunct Professor at the University of Karlsruhe. He died on June 19th, 2016) Lotter, André F. Gerhard Lang (21.10.1924-19.6.2016), in Vegetation history and archaeobotany, 2016, viewed 13 Nov 2023 (Gerhard Lang, one of the great German botanists and palaeoecologists of the 20th century, died on the 19th June 2016 in Biberach; born on October 21st 1924 in Ravensburg; between 1952 and 1975 he worked at the Landessammlungen für Naturkunde (now Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde) in Karlsruhe, first as a scientist, later as curator, and eventually as deputy director of the museum; in 1975 he was appointed full professor and director of the Systematisch-Geobotanisches Institut and Botanical Garden by the University of Bern; in 1989 at the height of his scientific career Gerhard had to retire and become professor emeritus) <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00334-016-0588-5> Wikipedia, viewed 13 Nov 2023 (Gerhard Lang, German botanist, born 21 Oct 1924 in Ravensburg, died 19 Jun 2016 in Biberach an der Riss) <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Lang_(Biologe)> |
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