carried out in close co-operation with colleagues in the host countries. The projects
were funded by DFG (German Research Foundation), BMBF (German Ministry of
Education and Research), BMBL (German Ministry of Agriculture), DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), VW-Foundation, Schimper-Foundation, Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation and the University of Bielefeld.His publication
record lists more than 300 papers, as well as publication, edition and co-edition of
many scientific books. He served the Faculty as Academic Dean in 1984–1995 and
from 1990 to 2003 he was responsible for the environmental council of the University of Bielefeld. He supervised many doctoral theses (c. 20), diploma theses (c. 130)
and teachers’ examination (c. 25). He was an external examiner at the University of
Cairo/Egypt, Aswan/Egypt, Karachi/Pakistan, Tel Aviv/Israel, Coimbra/Portugal
and Vienna/Austria. He served as examiner in many evaluation panels and on
editorial boards of scientific journals. He founded four affiliation treaties of the
Faculty of Biology/University of Bielefeld, with the University of Coimbra, with
the Live Science Department at Tel Aviv University, with the Jardín Botánico
Nacional at Santo Domingo/Dominican Republic and with the Sede Occidente in
San Ramón/University of Costa Rica. For more than 10 years, he was speaker of the
Afghanistan Research Group; he is, to date, vice president of the Swiss Afghanistan
Foundation and the Schimper-Foundation (Stuttgart-Hohenheim). He is a member of
the Academy of Science and Arts Peter I. St. Petersburg. Astragalus brecklei I.
Deml, Acantholimon brecklei Rech. f. & Schiman-Czeika and Anemone X brecklei
Rech. fil. were named after collections in his herbarium; some 15–20 new species
and subspecies were described from his Afghan specimens.
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were funded by DFG (German Research Foundation), BMBF (German Ministry of
Education and Research), BMBL (German Ministry of Agriculture), DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), VW-Foundation, Schimper-Foundation, Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation and the University of Bielefeld.His publication
record lists more than 300 papers, as well as publication, edition and co-edition of
many scientific books. He served the Faculty as Academic Dean in 1984–1995 and
from 1990 to 2003 he was responsible for the environmental council of the University of Bielefeld. He supervised many doctoral theses (c. 20), diploma theses (c. 130)
and teachers’ examination (c. 25). He was an external examiner at the University of
Cairo/Egypt, Aswan/Egypt, Karachi/Pakistan, Tel Aviv/Israel, Coimbra/Portugal
and Vienna/Austria. He served as examiner in many evaluation panels and on
editorial boards of scientific journals. He founded four affiliation treaties of the
Faculty of Biology/University of Bielefeld, with the University of Coimbra, with
the Live Science Department at Tel Aviv University, with the Jardín Botánico
Nacional at Santo Domingo/Dominican Republic and with the Sede Occidente in
San Ramón/University of Costa Rica. For more than 10 years, he was speaker of the
Afghanistan Research Group; he is, to date, vice president of the Swiss Afghanistan
Foundation and the Schimper-Foundation (Stuttgart-Hohenheim). He is a member of
the Academy of Science and Arts Peter I. St. Petersburg. Astragalus brecklei I.
Deml, Acantholimon brecklei Rech. f. & Schiman-Czeika and Anemone X brecklei
Rech. fil. were named after collections in his herbarium; some 15–20 new species
and subspecies were described from his Afghan specimens.
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