Aino Henssen

Aino Henssen ( born April 12, 1925 in Elberfeld, † August 29, 2011 in Marburg) was a German lichenologist and professor. Since 1992, she was the bearer of Acharius Medal, named after a Swedish Erik Acharius Award for lifetime achievement deserved lichen -watchers. Your botanical and mycological author abbreviation is " Henssen ".

Life

Aino Henssen his doctorate in 1953 in Marburg with a thesis on Lemnaceae. Subsequently, she worked from 1953 to 1954 at the Institute of Pomology, University of Bonn. From 1954 to 1956 she made ​​the first studies of actinomycetes at the Institute of Bacteriology in Berlin. In 1956, she worked at the Botanical Institute in Helsinki. From 1957 to 1961 she had a scholarship from the German Research Foundation and the Helene Lange Foundation and worked on lichens in Uppsala and Marburg. From 1961 to 1963 she was awarded a scholarship by the "American Association of University Women" and by the Canadian government (works in the U.S. and Canada). In 1963 she worked as curator of cryptogams at the Botanical Institute in Marburg, where in 1965 his habilitation in systematic botany and from 1970 to 1990 worked as a professor. Aino Henssen published 100 scientific papers and collected and herbarisierte about 60,000 species of lichens. She was co-author of the textbook lichens, An Introduction to the Lichens customer.

Your father was a professor Gottfried Henssen and her mother the Finn Toini Saraste.