John Gossweiler

John Gossweiler's 1939 phytogeographic map of Angola

Johannes Gossweiler ComIC (24 December 1873,[1][2] in Regensdorf – 19 February 1952, in Lisbon[3][4]) aka John Gossweiler or João Gossweiler, was state botanist to the Government of Angola from 1899 until his death. He made important collections in every district of Angola and created the first phytogeographic map of that country. His collections of African plant specimens were sent regularly to Lisbon (Jardim Colonial[5] and Jardim Botânico da Universidade[6]), the British Museum,[7] the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the University of Coimbra.[8] Duplicates were also kept at the Herbarium of the Instituto de Investigação Agronómica[9] in Angola. Today, many herbaria contain specimens he collected (see #Collections in herbaria).

  1. ^ "Collector J. Gossweiler". Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  2. ^ "Edit History: Letter from Johannes Gossweiler to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; from Launda, Angola; 26 May 1911; one page letter comprising one image; folio 428 on JSTOR". plants.jstor.org. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
  3. ^ "In Memoriam: John Grossweiler" (PDF). The Journal of the Kew Guild. 7 (59): 246–247. 1954. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-23.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Lisbon1952 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ The herbarium of Jardim Colonial (Lis.JC) or Centro de Botânica da Junta de Investigações Coloniais, became the Herbário do Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (LISC).
  6. ^ The herbarium of Jardim Botanico da Universidade (Lis.U) or Herbário da Universidade de Lisboa (LISU), now part of the Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência.
  7. ^ Botany collection of the Natural History Museum, London (now separated from the British Museum)
  8. ^ The herbarium of the Department of Botany, University of Coimbra
  9. ^ Now part of the Luanda Herbarium