Carl Georg Oscar Drude (5 June 1852 in

Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( , from Low German ''Brunswiek'' , Braunschweig dialect: ''Bronswiek'') is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the Nor ...

– 1 February 1933 in

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

) was a German

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

From 1870 he studied science and

chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig, relocating to the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...

the following year, where he was influenced by

August Grisebach August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach () was a German botanist and phytogeographer. He was born in Hannover on 17 April 1814 and died in Göttingen on 9 May 1879. Biography Grisebach studied at the Lyceum in Hanover, the cloister-school at Ilfe ...

(1814-1879). In 1873 he obtained his PhD and subsequently served as an assistant to

Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (December 9, 1798 – November 20, 1875) was a German botanist who was a native of Hanover. He studied natural sciences at the University of Göttingen, and in 1818 took a botanical journey through Hungary and Croatia ...

(1798-1875). From 1876 to 1879 he worked as a lecturer in botany at

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the capital of the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, the population was 118,911. General information The ori ...

, followed by an appointment as chair of botany at Dresden Technical University (1879). Here he served as director of its

botanical gardens A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''botanic'' and ''botanical'' and ''garden'' or ''gardens'' are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word ''botanic'' is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens, an ...

, which he systematically configured according to a phytogeographical principle. He remained at

until his retirement in 1920, twice serving as university

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(1906-1907, 1918-1919). Oskar Drude Grab

He is known best for his research in the field of

plant geography Phytogeography (from Greek language, Greek φυτόν, ''phytón'' = "plant" and γεωγραφία, ''geographía'' = "geography" meaning also distribution) or botanical geography is the branch of biogeography that is concerned with the geographi ...

, that included mapping of the world's different floristic zones. With

Adolf Engler Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler (25 March 1844 – 10 October 1930) was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, such as ''Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien'' (''The Natural Plant Families''), edited with ...

1844-1930), he was co-editor of ''Die Vegetation der Erde'' (1896-1928).

Principal works

* ''Atlas der Pflanzenverbreitung'', 1887 * ''Handbuch der Pflanzengeographie'', 1890 * ''Deutschlands Pflanzengeographie'', 1896- * ''Die Ökologie der Pflanzen'', 1914.WorldCat Titles
(publications)

References

Drude, Carl Georg Oscar 19th-century German botanists German ecologists 1852 births 1933 deaths Scientists from Braunschweig People from the Duchy of Brunswick Technical University of Braunschweig alumni University of Göttingen faculty 20th-century German botanists {{Germany-botanist-stub