Willi Hennig Society

Willi Hennig Society
FormationOctober 1980
HeadquartersNew York
Membership
fourteen council members
President
Stefan Richter
Websitecladistics.org/

The Willi Hennig Society "was founded in 1980 with the expressed purpose of promoting the field of phylogenetic systematics."[1] The society is represented by phylogenetic systematists managing and publishing in the peer-reviewed journal titled Cladistics. The society is named after Willi Hennig, a German systematic entomologist who developed the modern methods and philosophical approach to systematics in the 1940s and 1950s.[1] The society is also involved in reconstructing the tree of life. The current president, Prof. Dr. Stefan Richter of Universitat Rostock, was elected in 2022, succeeding Prof. Dr. Christiane Weirauch.

  1. ^ a b "Willi Hennig Society". Willi Hennig Society. Retrieved August 2, 2012.