Hans Peter Nooteboom


Hans Peter Nooteboom is a Dutch botanist, pteridologist, plant taxonomist, and journal editor.

Biography

Born in the Dutch East Indies, Hans Nooteboom with his family returned in 1939 to the Netherlands, where he remained during WWII. After graduation from secondary school in Rotterdam, he studied biology at Leiden University. There he studied under van Steenis and Robert Hegnauer and graduated with MSc. After six years as a secondary school teacher, Nooteboom become a graduate student at Leiden University in Hegnauer's Laboratory of Experimental Plant Systematics. In 1975 Nooteboom graduated with a Ph.D. on Symplocaceae of the Old World. In 1976 he became a staff member of the Rijksherbarium, as successor to Johannes Hendrikus Kern. Nooteboom established an international reputation as a plant taxonomist.
He has been an editor for Flora Malesiana since 1999 and has also done editorial work for Blumea and the Flora Malesiana Bulletin. As a collector for the Rijksherbarium, he has made trips to "Ambon, the Andaman Islands, Aru, Kalimantan, Sumatra, Sabah, Sarawak, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Burma, Pakistan, China, The Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Ceylon and China".

Selected publications