Albrecht Zimmermann Explained

Philipp Wilhelm Albrecht Zimmermann (23 April 1860, in Braunschweig – 22 February 1931, in Berlin) was a German botanist.^[1] He was a Professor of Botany at several different Universities (such as Leipzig and Tübingen).^[2] He was a botanist and collector of fungi and spermatophytes, who worked in Indonesia and Tanzania from 1902 to 1919. He moved to Indonesia in 1896 and studied applied botany.^[3] In 1902 he moved to Africa to join the Amani Research Institute that was established that year. He returned to Germany after World War I in 1920. He wrote about the cultivation of coffee among other things related to botany, but most of his writings were destroyed during World War II.

Works

• Der Kaffee, Deutscher Auslandsverlag, 1926, 204 p.
• Botanical microtechnique, 1893, (translated by J. E. Humphrey) 296 p.^[4]

Honours

He has been honoured in the naming of several plant taxa including;

• Zimmermanniella which is a genus of fungi in the family Phyllachoraceae by Paul Christoph Hennings in 1902.^[5]
• Neozimmermannia by Sijfert Hendrik Koorders in 1907, (a genus of fungi) which is now a synonym for Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (in Glomerellaceae family)
• Zimmermannia by Ferdinand Albin Pax in 1910, (a genus of Euphorbiaceae, Phyllanthaceae) which is a synonym of Meineckia.^[6]
• Zimmermanniopsis by Alan Radcliffe-Smith in 1990 (another genus of Euphorbiaceae, Phyllanthaceae) which is also a synonym of Meineckia.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Zimmermann, Albrecht Wilhelm Philipp (1860-1931) on JSTOR. plants.jstor.org. 2019-10-04.
2. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen . Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2022 . 978-3-946292-41-8 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2022 . 246307410 . January 27, 2022.
3. Web site: Zimmermann, Albrecht Wilhelm Philipp (1860-1931) on JSTOR. 2021-03-03. plants.jstor.org.
4. Book: Zimmermann A.. Botanical microtechnique: a hand-book of methods for the preparation, staining, and microscopical investigation of vegetable structures. 1896. Constable. London . 10.5962/bhl.title.114795.
5. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. . December 2007 . Outline of Ascomycota  - 2007 . Myconet . 13 . 1 - 58 . The Field Museum, Department of Botany . Chicago, USA . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090318003134/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp . March 18, 2009 .
6. Web site: Zimmermannia Pax Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 20 December 2022 . en.
7. Web site: Zimmermanniopsis Radcl.-Sm. Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 20 December 2022 . en.