Ulrich Willerding | |
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Died | 20 December 2021 | (aged 89)
Occupation | professor of botany |
Ulrich Willerding (8 July 1932 – 20 December 2021[1]) was a professor of botany at the Göttingen University, Germany. He was also an instructor at a local high school. Willerding was one of the leading European palaeo-ethnobotanists.[2] He had specialized in Medieval Europe but also done work on other times. One of his special interests was weeds. He had worked on bibliographies of European paleoethnobotany. Although a biologist by training, he had worked extensively with archaeologists.