Helga Dietrich, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Helga Dietrich

German botanist

Date of Birth: 12-Nov-1940

Place of Birth: Zwickau, Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 30-Jun-2018

Profession: university teacher, botanist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Helga Dietrich (1940–2018) was a German orchidologist and author who is noted for her comprehensive guides to literature on orchids, and for her work as curator of the Botanischer Garten Jena.
She described over eighty species of orchids, many from Cuba.
The standard author abbreviation H.Dietr.
is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
She was a 2012 recipient of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.