Anton Karl Schindler (15 August 1879 in

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...

– 1964) was a German dentist and

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. He studied botany at the universities of

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and Halle, receiving his doctorate at

Erlangen Erlangen (; East Franconian German, East Franconian: ''Erlang'', Bavarian language, Bavarian: ''Erlanga'') is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. It is the seat of the administrative district Erlangen-Höchstadt (former administrative d ...

in 1904. From 1905 to 1910 he conducted botanical research in China, during which time he also taught classes in natural sciences at

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and in

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. Afterwards, he returned to Germany, and spent several years as a schoolteacher in

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, Posen and

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. From 1925 to 1929 he studied dentistry, then worked as a dentist in the communities of

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(1929–32) and Döberitz (1932–56). In retirement he lived in

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. In 1906, botanist Hans Paul Heinrich Walter published '' Schindleria'', which is a genus of

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s from South America, in the family

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. It was named in Anton Karl Schindler's honour.

Selected works

* ''Die Abtrennung der Hippuridaceen von den Halorrhagaceen'', 1904 – The separation of Hippuridaceae from

Haloragaceae Haloragaceae (the watermilfoil family) is a eudicot flowering plant family in the order Saxifragales, based on the phylogenetic APG system. In the Cronquist system, it was included in the order Haloragales. Description The Haloragaceae are ...

. * ''Halorrhagaceae'', 1905 – Haloragaceae. * ''Botanische Streifzüge in den Bergen von Ost-China'', 1912 – Botanical journeys in the mountains of eastern China. * ''Das Genus Pseudarthria'' Wight et Arn, 1914 – The genus '' Pseudarthria'' (

Wight A wight (Old English: ''wiht'') is a mythical sentient being, often undead. In its original use the word ''wight'' described a living human being, but has come to be used in fictional works in the fantasy genre to describe certain immortal bein ...

Arn. George Arnott Walker Arnott of Arlary (6 February 1799 – 17 April 1868) was a Scottish botanist. Early life George Arnott Walker Arnott was born in Edinburgh in 1799, the son of David Walker Arnott of Arlary. He attended Milnathort Parish ...

) * ''Desmodiinae novae'', 1916 – New Desmodiinae. * ''Die Desmodiinen in der botanischen Literatur nach Linné'', 1928 – Desmodiinae in the botanical literature according to

Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...

. * ''Der Garten und seine Jahreszeiten'', 1929 (with Paul Kache) – The garden and its seasons.WorldCat Search
published works

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schindler, Anton Karl 1879 births 1964 deaths Scientists from Bremen University of Halle alumni University of Strasbourg alumni University of Göttingen alumni 20th-century German botanists German dentists