Gustav Wilhelm Körber

Gustav Wilhelm Körber

Gustav Wilhelm Körber (10 January 1817, Hirschberg – 27 January 1885, Breslau) was a German lichenologist.

He studied natural sciences in Breslau and Berlin, obtaining his PhD in 1839 with the thesis De gonidiis lichenum.^[1] After graduation, he served as an instructor at the "Elisabethanum" in Breslau, and from 1862, worked as a private teacher. In 1873 he became an associate professor at the University of Breslau.^[2][3]

Best known for his investigations of lichen species native to Silesia, he also examined specimens found in central and southeastern Europe as well as lichen collected from Mediterranean and Arctic regions. The genera Koerberia and Koerberiella are named after him.^[2]

Selected works

• Grundriss der kryptogamen-kunde, 1848 – Outline of cryptogamic species.
• Systema lichenum Germaniae: Die Flechten Deutschlands, 1855 – "Systema lichenum Germaniae": German lichens.
• Parerga lichenologica: Ergänzungen zum Systema lichenum, 1865 – "Parerga lichenologica": Supplement to "Systema lichenum".
• Lichenen aus Istrien, Dalmatien u. Albanien: (with Emanuel Weiss), 1867 – Lichens of Istria, Dalmatia and Albania.
• Lichenen Spitzbergens und Novaja-Semlja's, auf der graf Wilczek'schen expedition, 1872 – Lichens of Spitzbergen and Novaya Zemlya, from the Wilczek expedition.^[4]

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