Christian Leuckert | |
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Born | Radeberg, near Dresden. | March 27, 1930
Died | January 27, 2011 Berlin | (aged 80)
Alma mater | University of Leipzig; Free University of Berlin |
Awards | Acharius Medal |
Scientific career | |
Thesis | “The lignan glycoside arctiin, as a chemotaxonomic feature in the family Compositae. (Das Lignanglykosid Arctiin, als chemotaxonomisches Merkmal in der Familie der Compositen) (1965) |
Doctoral advisors | Rudolf Hänsel |
Author abbrev. (botany) | Leuckert |
Christian Leuckert was a lichen taxonomist who applied the diversity of secondary metabolites within lichens as useful taxonomic criteria. He was Director of the Institute of Plant Systematics and Plant Geography at the Free University of Berlin from the 1970s until 1995.[1]