Sarie Magdalena Perold
South African botanist and bryologist (1928-2011)
Sarie Magdalena Perold (née Lombard; 19 May 1928 – 11 November 2011) was a South African botanist and bryologist who specialised in the study of liverworts. She was particularly known for her extensive work on African thallose liverworts, especially the genus Riccia.
Early life and education
Born in Johannesburg, to a teacher father and a housewife mother who ran a nursery school, Perold graduated from Kensington high school in 1945 with four distinctions and received her B.Sc. degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1949, majoring in anatomy and histology. She had originally wanted to study medicine like her brother but had to settle for medical technology instead.
Career
She worked as a laboratory technician in various institutions from 1950 to 1967, and co-authored four papers while at the Wits Medical School. In 1979, at the age of 51, Perold began her career in bryology at the Botanical Research Institute (later the South African National Biodiversity Institute). She initially worked as an assistant to Dr. Robert Magill on southern African mosses before beginning her research on Ricciaceae at the suggestion of Professor O.H. Volk of the University of Würzburg. Despite her late start in the field, she became one of the leading experts on African liverworts.
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