Georg August Zenker

Georg August Zenker (11 June 1855 in Leipzig – 6 February 1922 in Bipindi) was a German gardener and naturalist.

He worked as a gardener at the botanical gardens in Leipzig and Naples, and in 1886, on behalf of the Italian government, traveled as a researcher to Africa. Subsequently, he was put in charge of the Sibange Farm, located near Libreville (Gabon), and later on, he worked as a preparator at Yaoundé Station in Kamerun.[1] In 1895 he quit the colonial service and returned to Germany, but soon afterwards, he went back to Kamerun as a private citizen and established a plantation at Bipindi, where he grew coffee, cacao and rubber.[2]

During his many years spent in Kamerun, he amassed an enormous collection of botanical, zoological and ethnographic items. Between 1912 and 1914 he issued the exsiccata-like plant specimen series Plantae Kamerunenses now deposited in several herbaria.[3] Unfortunately, his botanical specimens sent to Berlin were for the most part destroyed during World War II.[2] His name is associated with numerous plant and animal taxa; a few examples being:

References

  1. ^ Richard Tsogang Fossi, Zenker, Georg August. Collective (ed.), Atlas de l'absence. Le patrimoine culturel du Cameroun en Allemagne, Berlin 2023, (english working translation online) Berlin 2023, p. 437-438
  2. ^ a b Zenker, Georg August (1855-1922) JSTOR Global Plants
  3. ^ "Plantae Kamerunenses: IndExs ExsiccataID=1402645119". IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 19 May 2024.
  4. ^ CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms ... by Umberto Quattrocchi
  5. ^ The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals by Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson
  6. ^ The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles by Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson
  7. ^ International Plant Names Index.  G.Zenker.
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