Carl August Julius Milde (2 November 1824 – 3 July 1871) was a German bryologist and

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born in Breslau. In 1850 he obtained his medical doctorate from the

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, where he was a student of

Heinrich Göppert Johann Heinrich Robert Göppert (25 July 1800 – 18 May 1884) was a German botanist and paleontologist. Career He was born in Sprottau, Lower Silesia, and died at Breslau. In 1831 he became a professor of botany, as well as curator of the bo ...

(1800-1884). From 1853, he was an ''Oberlehrer'' at a ''Realschule'' in Breslau. Milde specialized in research of

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, particularly

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and

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s. The botanical genus ''Mildella'' from the family

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was named in his honor by Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan.BHL
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Charles Edward Faxon Charles Edward Faxon (January 21, 1846 – February 6, 1918) was an American botanical artist and instructor of botany born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 1867 he received his degree in civil engineering from Lawrence Scientific School in ...

(1846-1918) published a translation of Milde's ''Botrychiorum Monographia''. Other written works of his include: * ''Die höheren Sporenpflanzen Deutschland's und der Schweiz'', (The higher spore plants of Germany and

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), 1865. * ''Bryologia silesiaca'', (

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n bryology), 1869. Milde suffered from respiratory ailments for most of his adult life, and died at the age of 46 in

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, location of a popular spa that he sometimes visited for treatment.

References

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Faxon's Translations of Julius Milde's "Botrychiorum monographia". 19th-century German botanists Bryologists Pteridologists Scientists from Wrocław 1824 births 1871 deaths People from the Province of Silesia {{Germany-botanist-stub