{{short description|Swiss botanist}} {{original research|date=October 2025}} '''Werner Rodolfo Greuter''' (born 27 February 1938 in [[Genoa]], [[Italy]], as a [[Switzerland|Swiss]] national) is a [[botanist]]. He was the [[Chairperson|chair]] of the Editorial Committee for the ''[[International Code of Botanical Nomenclature]]'' (''ICBN'') - the ''Tokyo Code'' (1994) and the ''St Louis Code'' (2000). His proposed policy as regards registration of botanical names proved unpopular and in 1999 he stepped back, not being elected anew: he completed his term as chair to be succeeded at Vienna in 2005. He returned as a member of the editorial committee, contributing to the renamed [[International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants]], the "Melbourne Code" (2012).<ref>{{cite book |author1=McNeill, J. |author2=Barrie, F.R. |author3=Buck, W.R. |author4=Demoulin, V. |author5=Greuter, W. |author6=Hawksworth, D.L. |author7=Herendeen, P.S. |author8=Knapp, S. |author9=Marhold, K. |author10=Prado, J. |author11=Prud'homme Van Reine, W.F. |author12=Smith, G.F. |author13=Wiersema, J.H. |author14=Turland, N.J. |year=2012 |volume=Regnum Vegetabile 154 |title=International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (Melbourne Code) adopted by the Eighteenth International Botanical Congress Melbourne, Australia, July 2011 |publisher=A.R.G. Gantner Verlag KG |isbn=978-3-87429-425-6 |url=http://www.iapt-taxon.org/nomen/main.php?page=title }}</ref>
==Biography== Greuter went to schools in [[Bellinzona]] and [[Winterthur]], and received his PhD from the [[University of Zürich]] in 1972. From 1972 to 1974 he was scientific director of the [[Goulandris Museum of Natural History]] in [[Kifisia]], Athens, and edited its journal, ''Annales Musei Goulandris'' till 1976, being succeeded by [[W. T. Stearn]].{{citation needed|date=July 2019}}
He was appointed on 1 April 1978 to his current position: [[Professor]] of biology in the Institute of Biology at the [[Free University of Berlin]], Germany, and First Director of the University's Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum (BGBM) in [[Berlin]].
==Awards== {{BLP unreferenced section|date=July 2019}} * Medal of Honour of the University of Crete, Rethymnon, 2010 * Doctorate honoris causa (Laurea specialistica ''[[ad honorem]]'' in Biologia ed Ecologia vegetale), Università degli Studi di Palermo, 2010 * Premio Acuña Galé, Sociedad Cubana de Botánica, 2009 * Honorary Professorship (Categoría Docente Especial de Profesor Invitado), Universidad de La Habana, 2004 * Theophrastus Medal of Honour of the Hellenic Botanical Society, 2000 * IAPT Distinguished Services Award, 1999 * OPTIMA Gold Medal, 1998. * Distinguished Services Award, XVI International Botanical Congress, St Louis, Missouri
==Eponymy== The plant species ''[[Epipactis greuteri]]'', ''[[Minuartia greuteriana]]'', ''[[Hieracium greuteri]]'', ''[[Centaurea greuteri]]'', ''[[Bupleurum greuteri]]'' and ''[[Acanthus greuterianus]]'' are named after him. As well as ''[[Greuteria]]'', which is a genus of [[flowering plant]]s belonging to the family [[Fabaceae]] and published in 2013.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Greuteria'' Amirahm. & Kaz.Osaloo {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77138190-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=26 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
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==See also== * [[binomial nomenclature]] * [[List of botanists by author abbreviation]]
==References and external links== {{reflist}} * [http://www.bgbm.org/bgbm/staff/wiss/Greuter/default.htm Prof. Greuter's page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120013040/http://www.bgbm.org/bgbm/STAFF/wiss/Greuter/default.htm |date=2008-11-20 }} at [http://www.bgbm.org/bgbm/overview.htm The Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (BGBM)] * [http://www.ars-grin.gov/~sbmljw/cgi-bin/taxon.pl?104195 Example of a combination published by Greuter: ''Dittrichia viscosa'' (L.) Greuter]
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