Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem

Scientific staff

H. Walter Lack

Contact:
Prof. Dr. H. Walter LACK,
Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Straße 6-8, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
Phone: (+4930) 838-50136, Fax: (+4930) 838-50186, E-mail: h.w.lack@bgbm.org, lack@zedat.fu-berlin.de

Functions:

  • Director of Library and Botanical Museum.
  • apl. Professor at Fachbereich Biologie, Freie Universität Berlin.
  • Head of Bibliotheksbereich 10, Freie Universität Berlin
  • Head of Editorial Council Willdenowia.
  • Editor of Englera
  • Coeditor of Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie
  • Coeditor of Bibliotheca botanica

Curriculum:
Born in Vienna (Austria) 1949. Studies of Biology at Universität Wien, Dr.phil., Universität Wien 1973, Assitant, Universität Salzburg 1973 - 1975, A.v.Humboldt-Fellow, Universität München, 1975; Curator, Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, Senior Curator, since 1990 Director of the Library & Botanic Museum and Professor; apl. Professor at Fachbereich Biologie, Freie Universität Berlin, since 1991. Professore di contratto, Università di Palermo 1994, Visiting Professor at University of Coimbra (2003), Patras (1998, 2002), Pisa (2001, 2004).

Awards:

  • OPTIMA Medal in Silver, 2001
  • Engler Medal, in Silver, 2001
  • Buchpreis der Deutschen Gartenbaugesellschaft, 2001
  • Sibthop Medal, University of Oxford, 2001
  • 15th Ramsbottom Lecture, Florenz, 2003

Committee memberships:

  • Board Member of Landesmuseumsverband Berlin
  • Committee for Vascular Plants, IAPT, Vienna
  • Advisory Board, Pueckler Gesellschaft, Berlin
  • Advisory Board of Alexander von Humboldt Research, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin
  • Advisory Board, Quaderni di Botanica, Palermo

Memberships in scientific societies:

  • International Association for Plant Taxonomy, Vienna
  • International Council of Museums, Paris
  • International Council of Monuments and Sites, Paris
  • Organization for the Phytotaxonomic Investigation of the Mediterranean Area, Madrid
  • American Society for Plant Taxonomy, San Francisco
  • Society for the History of Natural History, London
  • Deutscher Museumsbund, Dresden
  • Zoologisch-botanische Gesellschaft, Wien
  • Förderkreis naturkundlicher Museen, Berlin
  • Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik, Bochum
  • Gesellschaft für Natur- und Heilkunde, Berlin

Research interests:

  • History of plant taxonomy
  • Asteraceae (Lactuceae; Inuleae)
  • Botanical illustration

Research projects:

  • The Bauer Brothers - the painted record of nature
  • A. v. Humboldt and American Botany

Honours:

  • 1981 Cross of Honour Litteris et artibus of the Republic of Austria
  • 1996 Great Cross of Merits of the Republic of Austria
  • 2001 Foreign Member of the Linnean Society, London
  • 2002 Visiting Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford
  • 2007 Cross of Honour Litteris et artibus 1st Class of the Republic of Austria

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