Rüdiger Wittig (born October 17, 1946 in Herne, West Germany) is a professor of

geobotany Phytogeography (from Greek φυτόν, ''phytón'' = "plant" and γεωγραφία, ''geographía'' = "geography" meaning also distribution) or botanical geography is the branch of biogeography that is concerned with the geographic distribution o ...

and

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at the

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in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Career

From 1968 to 1973, Wittig studied biology and chemistry at the Wilhelms-University of Westphalia in

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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

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at the

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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

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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)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wittig, Rudiger 20th-century German botanists Living people 1946 births 21st-century German botanists Academic staff of Goethe University Frankfurt