Klaus Kubitzki


Klaus Kubitzki was a German botanist. He was Emeritus professor in the University of Hamburg, at the Herbarium Hamburgense. He is known for his work on the systematics and biogeography of the angiosperms, particularly those of the Neotropics, and also the floristic record of the Tertiary era. His plant systematic work is referred to as the Kubitzki system. He was a member of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.

Career

Kubitzki was born in Niesky, Germany, and studied biology and geology at the universities of Innsbruck, Göttingen, and Kiel.
His doctoral work at Kiel was in Quaternary studies. He then became an associate professor at the Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia, southern Chile. He pursued further studies at the University of Münster, from where he proceeded to a position as lecturer at the University of Munich till 1973, and then as professor of systematic botany at the University of Hamburg.

Death

Kubitzki died on 5 December 2022, near Hamburg aged 89.

Work

Kubitzki's contributions have included taxonomy, plant geography and geoecology. He made a special study of the Guayana Highland. His taxonomic work is contained in The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants.

Selected publications

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The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants (Springer-Verlag, Berlin)

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Eponyms

;Genus:Kubitzkia van der Werff
;Species:Mikania kubitzkii R.M.King & H.Rob.