Philipp Wilhelm Albrecht Zimmermann (23 April 1860, in Braunschweig – 22 February 1931, in Berlin) was a German botanist.[1]
He was a Professor of Botany at several different Universities (such as Leipzig and Tübingen).[2]
He was a botanist and collector of fungi and spermatophytes, who worked in Indonesia and Tanzania from 1902 to 1919. He moved to Indonesia in 1896 and studied applied botany.[3] In 1902 he moved to Africa to join the Amani Research Institute that was established that year. He returned to Germany after World War I in 1920. He wrote about the cultivation of coffee among other things related to botany, but most of his writings were destroyed during World War II.[1]
Works
Der Kaffee, Deutscher Auslandsverlag, 1926, 204 p.
Botanical microtechnique, 1893, (translated by J. E. Humphrey) 296 p.[4]
Honours
He has been honoured in the naming of several plant taxa including;
^Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58. Archived from the original on March 18, 2009.
