Christiaan Henrik Persoon
1761–1836
Dutch botanist born in South Africa and educated in Germany. Primarily known as a mycologist, he was also the author of Synopsis plantarum (1805–7), which attempted to describe all the phanerogams then known.
Source
DSB.
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.
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