Gustav Lindau [SEP] place of death
Gustav Lindau
Gustav Lindau (May 2, 1866 in Dessau – October 10, 1923 in Berlin), was a German mycologist and botanist.
Biography.
Gustav Lindau studied natural history in Heidelberg and Berlin, where he studied under Simon Schwendener (1829–1919). He completed his doctoral thesis on the apothecia of lichens in 1888. In 1890 he became director at the botanical garden in Münster and an assistant to Julius Oscar Brefeld (1839–1925).
In 1892 he became an assistant at the Berlin botanical garden.
- 2000: Toleranzpreis der Evangelischen Akademie Tutzing
- 2002: Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg
- 2003: Gustav Adolf Prize
- 2010: Lennart Bernadotte Medal of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
Personal life and death.
Herzog’s wife, Christiane Herzog, died on 19 June 2000. In 2001, he married Alexandra Freifrau von Berlichingen.
He was a member of the Evangelical Church in Germany. He died on 10 January 2017 at the age of 82.
Literature.
- Kai Diekmann