"[2] Baumann-Bodenheim was born January 26, 1920 in Baden in Germany the moved to Wettingen in Switzerland as a child and where he started studied to become a teacher.

[3] He started his career in 1946 when he obtained a post as an exchange assistant at the National Herbarium of the Netherlands where he also met his wife to be.

[3] By 1988 he had complete the management of the collection and started working on producing the planted 24 volumes of Systematik der Flora von Neu-Caledonien.

[4] He later took up teaching biology at a secondary school in Zurich but continued to work on the flora of New Caledonia in his personal time.

[4] He succumbed to Parkinson's disease and was forced to retire early and was bedbound for the last eight years of his life until his death February 18, 1996.