George Hollenberg
Dr. George Jacob Hollenberg was noted botanist and professor of biology. Hollenberg was born December 5, 1897, in Grand Harbor North Dakota. In 1921, he received a Bachelors from La Verne College in Los Angeles. He completed a Masters from Manchester College in 1922, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1933. He was the Principal of a public school in Indiana from 1922-23. Before coming to the University of Redlands, Dr. Hollenberg was an Instructor of Biology at La Verne College for 15 years, 1921 to 1939. He began his career at La Verne College as an Assistant Professor from 1939-42, Associate Professor, 1942-45, Full Professor 1945-63, Emeritus Professor, 1963. As an authority on marine algae, Dr. Hollenberg specialized in red algae. Beginning in 1949, he taught at Hopkins Marine Station for the next eighteen years. With Dr. Izzie Abbot, he co-authored Marine Algae of California (1976).
A remembrance of George Jacob Hollenberg was written by Dr. Izzie Abbott that in the journal Phycologia (1989) Volume 28 (3), 400-402: George Jacob Hollenberg (1897-1988). Below is a portion of her remembrance.
"In California and the Pacific coast of North America in general, and in the central Pacific, he left taxonomic studies that will last beyond his time because of the thoroughness of his observations. I knew him first in the 1950s when I joined him in teaching the marine algae course at Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, a course which started sporadically in the 1920s, becoming more regular with the addition of Gilbert Morgan Smith to the Stanford staff, and continuing after Dr. Smith's retirement by Hollenberg and myself, with the addition of others from time to time. We taught together each summer for about 15 years, and in that period wrote a Supplement to Smith's Marine Algae of the Monterey Peninsula (Hollenberg & Abbott 1966) and just after his retirement (we used to tease him about the number of times he had retired!) from teaching the marine algae course at Stanford, we published Marine Algae of California (Abbott & Hollenberg 1976). I never had a colleague I could more thoroughly depend on than 'Uncle George'. If he said that he would complete writing up a certain group of algae by a certain date, it would be finished on that date...George Hollenberg was a student of G.M. Smith, and it can be said honestly that it was he who taught Dr Smith the Pacific coast taxa, Dr Smith having come from Wisconsin with important contributions in freshwater algae. Smith thanked Hollenberg repeatedly in his papers and book on the Monterey Peninsula algae, praising Hollenberg's 'uncanny ability to find rare algae'. Hollenberg's PhD research could be conducted only during the summer since he had to teach (first at La Verne college near Los Angeles, and later at the University of Redlands) in order to support his family of four children. During the Depression, La Verne was so short of funds that 'Uncle George' was paid with lumber, with which he built a house."
Publications:
Hollenberg, G.J. 1972. Phycological notes VII, Concerning three Pacific Coast species, especially Porphyra miniata (C.Ag.) C. Ag. (Rhodophyceae, Bangiales). Phycologia, 11(1):43-46
Hollenberg, G.J. 1971. Phycological notes VI, New records, bnew combinations, and noteworthy observations concerning marine algae from Califonia. Phycologia, 10(2/3):281-289
Hollenberg, G.J. 1971. Phycological notes V, New species of marine algae from Califonia. Phycologia, 10(1):11-16
Hollenberg, G.J. 1970. Phycological notes IV, including new marine algae and new records for Califonia. Phycologia, 9(1):61-72
Hollenberg, G.J. 1969. New species of marine algae from Washington, U.S.A. Syesis 2:163-169
AN ACCOUNT OF RALFSIACEAE (PHAEOPHYTA) OF CALIFORNIA, HOLLENBERG, GJ. JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY Volume: 5 Issue: 4 Pages: 290-+ Published: 1969
PHYCOLOGICAL NOTES .3. NEW RECORDS OF MARINE ALGAE FROM CENTRAL TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN, HOLLENBERG, GJ. BRITTONIA Volume: 20 Issue: 1 Pages: 74-+ Published: 1968
NEW SPECIES OF MARINE ALGAE FROM CALIFORNIA, HOLLENBERG, GJ; ABBOTT, IA. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY Volume: 46 Issue: 10 Pages: 1235-+ Published: 1968
AN ACCOUNT OF SPECIES OF POLYSIPHONIA OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN .I. OLIGOSIPHONIA, HOLLENBERG, GJ. PACIFIC SCIENCE Volume: 22 Issue: 1 Pages: 56-+ Published: 1968
AN ACCOUNT OF SPECIES OF RED ALGA POLYSIPHONIA OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN .2. POLYSIPHONIA, HOLLENBERG, GJ. PACIFIC SCIENCE Volume: 22 Issue: 2 Pages: 198-+ Published: 1968
AN ACCOUNT OF SPECIES OF RED ALGA HERPOSIPHONIA OCCURRING IN CENTRAL AND WESTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN, HOLLENBERG, GJ. PACIFIC SCIENCE Volume: 22 Issue: 4 Pages: 536-+ Published: 1968
NEW MARINE ALGAE FROM CENTRAL TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN, HOLLENBERG, GJ. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY Volume: 54 Issue: 10 Pages: 1198-+ Published: 1967
Hollenberg, G.J. 1967 New genera in the Rhodomelaceae from the Central Pacific. Bull.So.Calif.Acad.of Sci. v.66 no.3:201-221
NEW SPECIES AND NEW COMBINATIONS OF MARINE ALGAE FROM REGION OF MONTEREY CALIFORNIA, HOLLENBERG, GJ; ABBOTT, IA. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY Volume: 43 Issue: 10 Pages: 1177-+ Published: 1965
Hollenberg, G.J. 1963. A new species of Malaconema (Rhodophyta) from the Marshall Islands. Phycologia, v.2 no.4:169-172
NEW SPECIES OF MALACONEMA FROM MARSHALL ISLANDS, HOLLENBERG, GJ. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY Volume: 49 Issue: 6 Pages: 671-& Published: 1962
Hollenberg, G.J. 1958. Phydological Notes II - Polysiphonia. Bull.Torrey Bot.Club, v.85(1):63-69
Hollenberg, G.J. 1958. Observations concerning the life cycle of Spongomorpha coalita n(Ruprecht) Collins. Madrono v.14(8):249-251
CULTURE STUDIES OF MARINE ALGAE .III. PORPHYRA-PERFORATA, HOLLENBERG, GJ. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY Volume: 45 Issue: 9 Pages: 653-656 Published: 1958
Hollenberg, G.J. 1948. Notes on Pacific Coast Marine Algae. Madrono v.9(5):155-162
Hollenberg, G.J. 1945. New marine algae from Southern California. III. American Journal of Botany, v.32 no.8 pp.447-451
Hollenberg, G.J. 1944. An account of the species of Polysiphonia on the Pacific Coast of North America. II. Polysiphonia. American Journal of Botany, v.31 no.8 pp.474-483
Hollenberg, G.J. 1943. Ne marine algae from Southern Califonia. II. American Journal of Botany, v.30 no.8 pp.571-579
Hollenberg, G.J. 1942. Phycological Notes--I. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 69(7):528-538
Hollenberg, G.J. 1942. An account of the species of Polysiphionia on the Pacific Coast of North America. I. Oligosiphonia. American Journal of Botany, v.29 no.9 pp.772-785
Hollenberg, G.J. 1941. Culture studies of marine algae. II. Hapterophycus canaliculatus S. & G. American Journal of Botany, v.28 no.10 pp.676-683
Hollenberg, G.J. 1940. New marine algae from Souther California I. American Journal of Botany, v.27 no.10 pp.868-877
Hollenberg, G.J. 1939. Some new Myxophyceae from Southern California. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 66:489-494
Hollenberg, G.J. 1939. A morphological study of Amplisiphonia a new member of the Rhodomelaceae. The Botanical Gazette, v.101 no.2 pp.380-390
Hollenberg, G.J. 1939. Culture of marine Algae. I. Eisenia arborea. Amer. J. Bot. 26:34-41
Hollenberg, G.J. 1936. A study of Halicystis Ovalis. II. Periodicity in the Formation of Gametes. American Journal of Botany, v.23 no.1 pp.1-3
Hollenberg, G.J. 1935. A study of Halicystis Ovalis. I. Morphology and Reproduction. American Journal of Botany, v.22 no.9 pp.782-807