Rüdiger Wittig (born October 17, 1946 in
Herne, West Germany) is a professor of
geobotany
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and
ecology
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at the
Goethe University Frankfurt
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in
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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.
Career
From 1968 to 1973, Wittig studied biology and chemistry at the
Wilhelms-University of Westphalia in
Münster
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and passed the state examination, followed by doctoral studies from 1973 to 1976 (Dr.rer.nat.). Until the completion of his postdoctoral lecture qualification in 1980, he was a research associate at the Wilhelms-University in Münster. From 1980 until 1988, Wittig was professor for
botany
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at the
Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf Heinrich may refer to:
People
* Heinrich (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
* Heinrich (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
*Hetty (given name), a given name (including a list of peo ...
and chair of the department for geobotany at the Institute for Plant Physiology. Since 1989, he has been a professor for ecology and geobotany at the Goethe University Frankfurt in Frankfurt am Main.
In 2002, a specific type of
blackberry
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was named after Rüdiger Wittig: ''Rubus wittigianus''.
Selected publications
Wittig has published over 250 books and articles, including:
* R. Wittig: ''Ökologie der Großstadtflora''. G. Fischer, Stuttgart/Jena 1991, 261 S.
* Herbert Sukopp u. R. Wittig (Hrsg.): ''Stadtökologie''. G. Fischer, Stuttgart 1993, 402 S.
* R. Wittig: ''Siedlungsvegetation''. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2002, 252 S.
* R. Wittig u. Bruno Streit (Hrsg.): ''Ökologie''.- UTB basics, Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, 303 S.
External links
Description of ''rubus wittigianus'' (in German)
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20th-century German botanists
Living people
1946 births
21st-century German botanists
Academic staff of Goethe University Frankfurt