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Born September 22, 1750 • Spandau • Germany
Died April 7, 1816 (aged 65) • Berlin • Germany
Notable Works “Das entdeckte Geheimnis der Natur im Bau und in der Befruchtung der Blumen”
Subjects Of Study plant • dichogamy • fertilization • sexual reproduction
Josef Gottlieb Kölreuter
German botanist
Rudolph Jacob Camerarius
German botanist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Albert Francis Blakeslee
American botanist
Julius von Sachs
German botanist
Nathanael Pringsheim.
Nathanael Pringsheim
German botanist
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
Katherine Esau
American botanist
Alexander Braun, engraving by Weger, c. 1875
Alexander Braun
German botanist
August Wilhelm Eichler
German botanist
Sir Ferdinand von Mueller
German botanist
Wilhelm Hofmeister
German botanist
Heinrich Anton de Bary
German botanist
Pfeffer, Wilhelm
Wilhelm Pfeffer
German botanist
Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
German botanist
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
Matthias Jakob Schleiden
German botanist
Karl von Goebel
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
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist

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