Siegfried Jost Casper

Siegfried Jost Casper ( born January 12, 1929 in Oberneuschönberg ) is a German biologist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Casper ".

Siegfried Caspers research interests are in the fields of limnology and fat herbs ( Pinguicula ). Together with Heinz -Dieter Krausch he published a basic reference to the freshwater flora of Central Europe. Casper worked for over the Stechlinsee and the Saale and published in 1966 until today regarded as the standard work " Monograph of the genus Pinguicula L. ". Up to the present he has continuously published further descriptions of newly discovered species, such as 2007 Pinguicula Pinguicula lippoldii and toldensis or 2009 Pinguicula mariae. He is since 1990 member of the Academy Charitable Sciences in Erfurt and was the director of the Botanical Garden Jena.

Works

• Monograph of the genus Pinguicula L., ( Bibliotheca Botanica, No. 127/128 ), 1966, Stuttgart