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Fritz Heinis

Fritz Heinis (9 February 1883, Waldenburg – 16 August 1970, La Chaux-de-Fonds) was a Swiss biologist, botanist and bryologist.

He worked as an instructor at district schools in Bockten (1905–07) and Therwil (1907-11) and at a secondary school in Basel (1911–44). In 1919 he obtained his doctorate from the University of Basel. He was a member of the Botanischen Kommission Basel.

In the field of bryology, he collected mosses mainly in the environs of Basel as well as in the cantons of Bern, Solothurn and Graubunden. His herbarium is kept at the Canton Museum Baselland in Liestal.

Selected works

  • Tardigarden der Schweiz, 1908 – Tardigrades of Switzerland.
  • Systermatik und Biologie der moosbewohnenden Rhizopoden, Rotatorien und Tardigraden der Umgebung von Basel mit Berucksichtigung der ubrigen Schweiz, 1910 – Systematics and biology of moss-inhabiting rhizopods, rotatoria and tardigrades in the environs of Basel, etc.
  • Beitrage zur Flora des Kantons Baselland, 1926 – Contribution to the flora of Baselland.
  • Beitrage zur Mikrofauna der Umgebung von Liestal, 1933 – Contribution to microfauna in the environs of Liestal.
  • Beitrage zur Mikrobiocoenose in alpinen Pflanzenpolstern. — Berichte des Geobotanischen Institutes Rubel 1936: 61–76.
  • Beitrage zur Floristik des Kantons Baselland: Ein altes Baselbieter Herbar, NFG 11, 1940, 91-98 – Contribution to the floristics of Baselland.
  • Die Naturschutzbestrebungen im Kanton Baselland in den letzten 30 Jahren, NFG 11, 1940, 102-125.
  • Beitrag zur Mikrobiocoenose der Sphagnumpolster auf God dal Fuorn im Nationalpark. — Ergebnisse der wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen im Schweizerischen Nationalpark 1: 525–547 (1945).

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