Hermann Weyland

Hermann Gerhard Weyland (25 March 1888 in Sankt Ingbert 20 January 1974 in Wuppertal) was a German chemist and botanist. In collaboration with Richard Kräusel, he carried out significant paleobotanical investigations of Devonian flora.

He obtained his education at the University of Jena, receiving his doctorate in 1912 under the direction of Christian Ernst Stahl. Following graduation, he worked as assistant to Wilhelm Pfeffer at the University of Leipzig and under Ludwig Knorr in Jena. From 1915 to 1952 he worked as a chemist at Bayer in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, being named head of its physiology laboratory in 1924. In 1931 he became an honorary professor at the University of Cologne, where in 1945–48 he served as interim director of the botanical institute.[1][2]

For a period of time, he served as chairman of the Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein Wuppertal.[3] The fossil genus Weylandites commemorates his name.[2]

Selected works

References

  1. Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen, Volume 1 by Jan-Peter Frahm, Jens Eggers
  2. 1 2 BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
  3. Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein Wuppertal Geschichte
  4. Most widely held works by Hermann Weyland WorldCat Identities
  5. Weyland, Hermann ZVAB.com
  6. IPNI.  Weyland.
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