Rüdiger Wittig
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Rüdiger Wittig (b. October 17, 1946 in Herne, Germany) is a professor of geobotany and ecology at the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
[edit] Career
From 1968 to 1973, Wittig studied biology and chemistry at the Wilhelms-University of Westphalia in Münster 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 at the Heinrich Heine-University in Düsseldorf and chair of the department for geobotany at the Institute for plant-physiology. Since 1989, he is a professor for ecology and geobotany at the Johannes Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main.
In 2002, a specific type of blackberry was named after Rüdiger Wittig: rubus wittigianus.
[edit] Selected publications
Wittig has published over 250 books and articles, including:
- R. Wittig: Ökologie der Großstadtflora. G. Fischer, Stuttgart/Jena 1991, 261 S. ISBN 3-437-20460-2
- Herbert Sukopp u. R. Wittig (Hrsg.): Stadtökologie. G. Fischer, Stuttgart 1993, 402 S. ISBN 3-437-26000-6
- R. Wittig: Siedlungsvegetation. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2002, 252 S. ISBN 3-8001-3693-7
- R. Wittig u. Bruno Streit (Hrsg.): Ökologie.- UTB basics, Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, 303 S. ISBN 3-8252-2542-9
