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| Botanical Society of Germany | |
|---|---|
| Name | Botanical Society of Germany |
| Native name | Gesellschaft für Botanik Deutschlands |
| Formation | 19th century |
| Type | Learned society |
| Headquarters | Berlin |
| Region served | Germany |
| Language | German |
| Leader title | President |
Botanical Society of Germany
The Botanical Society of Germany is a learned society founded in the 19th century to advance plant sciences through research, collections, and education. It has engaged with institutions such as the University of Berlin, the Humboldt University of Berlin, the Max Planck Society, the German Research Foundation, and the Prussian Academy of Sciences. Its networks included collaborations with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, the Smithsonian Institution, the Royal Society, and the International Botanical Congress.
Founded amid 19th‑century scientific institutionalization, the society drew figures associated with the University of Göttingen, the University of Heidelberg, the University of Munich, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and the Technical University of Dresden. Early members corresponded with botanists at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, the Kew Gardens, the Botanical Garden, Berlin-Dahlem, and the Vienna Natural History Museum. Through the 20th century it navigated periods marked by interactions with the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Deutsches Museum, and the Bundesrepublik. Key historical moments involved exchanges with the Royal Society of London, the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
The society promotes botanical research linked to the Botanical Garden, Cologne, the Botanical Garden of the University of Marburg, the Berlin Botanical Museum, the Senckenberg Nature Research Society, and the Bavarian State Collection of Botany. It supports projects at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, the Fraunhofer Society, the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, and the Natural History Museum, London. Activities span taxonomy collaborations with the International Association for Plant Taxonomy, conservation partnerships with IUCN, fieldwork with the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, and educational initiatives with the German National Library of Science and Technology and the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung.
Membership historically included academics from the University of Tübingen, the University of Freiburg, the University of Bonn, the University of Leipzig, and the Technical University of Munich. Leaders have had ties to the German Botanical Society, the Royal Horticultural Society, the European Botanical Congress, the International Union of Biological Sciences, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Committees coordinate with the EU Horizon 2020 framework, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the World Wide Fund for Nature, and museums such as the Natural History Museum, Vienna.
The society publishes bulletins and journals distributed to libraries including the Berlin State Library, the Bavarian State Library, the British Library, the Library of Congress, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew library. Research themes intersect with projects at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Physiology, the MPI for Developmental Biology, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Collaborative papers have cited collections from the Smithsonian Institution, the Field Museum of Natural History, the Natural History Museum, London, the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh herbarium.
Annual meetings take place in venues such as the Freie Universität Berlin, the University of Hamburg, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Dresden International Congress Center, and the Munich Trade Fair. Symposia feature speakers from the Royal Society, the European Commission, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Max Planck Society, and the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina. The society has organized joint conferences with the International Botanical Congress, the European Botanical Association, the Botanical Society of America, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and the Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna.
The society curates collections connected to the Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem, the Herbarium Berolinense, the Bavarian State Collection of Botany (B), the Senckenberg Herbarium, and the Herbarium Hamburgense. Specimens have provenance linked to expeditions associated with the German Prussian expeditions, the Berlin-Dahlem expeditions, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew collecting programs, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and the Natural History Museum, London expeditions. Digitization efforts coordinate with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, the Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Digital Public Library of America, the Europeana platform, and the GBIF network.
The society confers prizes and medals named in the tradition of awards like the Linnean Medal, the Darwin Medal, the Humboldt Prize, the Alexander von Humboldt Medal, and the Heinrich Römer Prize. Recipients have included scientists affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, the ETH Zurich, and the Karolinska Institute. Honorary memberships and lectures have been delivered in partnership with the Royal Society, the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the European Research Council, the German National Academy of Sciences, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Category:Scientific societies based in Germany Category:Botany organizations