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Also Known As Gustav Heinrich Adolf Engler
Born March 25, 1844 • Prussia
Died October 10, 1930 (aged 86) • Berlin • Germany
Notable Works “Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien” • “Syllabus der Pflanzennamen”
Subjects Of Study plant • population distribution • taxonomy

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Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
August Wilhelm Eichler
German botanist
Cherry tree (Prunus avium), woodcut by David Kandel from De stirpium historia (1552), Latin translation of New Kreuterbuch by Hieronymus Bock
Hieronymus Bock
German scientist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
English naturalist
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Brown, Robert
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist
Augustin Pyrame de Candolle
Swiss botanist
Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
French botanist
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
French botanist and physician
John Lindley, engraving, 1865, after a photograph
John Lindley
British botanist
Endlicher, Stephan
Stephan Endlicher
Austrian botanist
Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle
Swiss botanist
Bessey, c. 1910
Charles E. Bessey
American botanist
Adanson, Michel
Michel Adanson
French botanist
Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu.
Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu
French botanist
Robert Morison
Scottish botanist

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