Hans Höppner Explained

Hans Höppner (8 February 1873, in Bremen  - 24 April 1946, in Krefeld) was a German botanist and entomologist.

He worked as a secondary school teacher in the city of Krefeld.^[1] Here, he oversaw the local natural science museum, its herbarium and also worked on the museum's entomological collections.^[2] Höppner issued the exsiccata Orchidaceae exsiccatae. Mitteleuropäische Orchideen (1917–1932).^[3]

Known for investigations of flora native to the Lower Rhine, he also made numerous taxonomic contributions within the botanical family Orchidaceae.^[4] In the field of entomology, he published a regional study on bees called Die Bienenfauna der Dünen und Weserabhänge zwischen Uesen und Baden (1901).^[5]

Principal works

• Flora des Niederrheins : zum gebrauch in schulen und afu ausflügen, 1907 - Flora of the Lower Rhine.
• Flora des Westfälisch-Rheinischen Industriegebietes unter Einschluß der Rheinischen Bucht, 1926 - Flora of the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area, including the Rhine basin.^[6]

Notes and References

1. http://www.heimat-krefeld.de/website/dieheimat/2009/DH80/224-230.pdf Heimat-Krefeld
2. Statement based on a translation of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.
3. Web site: Orchidaceae exsiccatae. Mitteleuropäische Orchideen: IndExs ExsiccataID=286034048 . IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae . Botanische Staatssammlung München . 15 July 2024.
4. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_authorAbbrev=H%C3%B6ppner IPNI
5. https://books.google.com/books/about/Die_Bienenfauna_der_D%C3%BCnen_und_Weserabh.html?id=qtv3SAAACAAJ Google Books
6. http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ClassifyDemo?search-author-txt=%22H%C3%B6ppner%2C+Hans+%22 OCLC Classify