Background
He was the son of botanist Karl Rechinger (1867-1952).
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Karl Rechinger
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He studied botany, geography and geology at the University of Vienna, and beginning in 1928, worked as a demonstrator under Richard Wettstein in Vienna"s institute of botany.
Career
He later served as an assistant in the department of botany at the Naturhistorisches Museum, where from 1961 to 1971, he was the museum"s director He made important contributions involving flora native to Southwestern Asia and Greece, being recognized for his work on Flora Iranica and as the author of Flora Aegaea. As a taxonomist, he described many species of plants.
Rechinger was also a lecturer of botany at the University of Vienna, and in 1956-1957 was a visiting professor in Baghdad, where he founded a herbarium.
The genera Rechingerella, Rechingeria and Rechingeriella are named in his honor. He also collected reptiles on his journeys, including two species that were named after him.
Elaphe rechingeri and Eirenis rechingeri.
Membership
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts]
He was in 1971 elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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Austria