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August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach

1814–79

German botanist. Travelled through the Balkan Peninsula and north-western Asia Minor, 1839–40, studying the flora of these regions. Professor of botany, Göttingen University, 1847.

Sources

DSB

NDB.

Bibliography

DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.

NDB: Neue deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 27 vols. (A–Wettiner) to date. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 1953–.

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