Gabriela G. Hässel

Gabriela Gustava Hässel de Menéndez (15 October 1927 – 4 July 2009) was an Argentine bryologist who worked in liverworts and hornworts. Originally a botany professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires, she left to become a National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) researcher and was head of the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Argentine Museum's cryptogamy division from 1962 until 2000. She was a 1962 Guggenheim Fellow and received a 1983 Konex Award. Biography Hässel was born on 15 October 1927 in Quilmes, a city south of Buenos Aires. she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study liverwort taxonomy. She won the 1970 Cristobal Hicken Award, As part of her final publication, a Nova Hedwigia article titled "Catalogue of Marchantiophyta and Anthocerotophyta of Southern South America", she did indexing work for a bryology bibliography going back five decades.

Hässel de Menéndez died on 4 July 2009. She had two children with her husband Carlos Alberto Menéndez.