Franz Ludwig Späth (25 February 1839 – 2 February 1913), 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 ...

and fifth manager of the

Späth nursery The Späth (often spelt ''Spaeth'') family created one of the world's most notable plant nurseries of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The nursery had been founded in 1720 by Christoph Späth but removed to the erstwhile district of Baumschulenwe ...

from 1863, when his father

Ludwig Späth Ludwig Späth (1793–1883) was a German botanist and nurseryman. He was father of Franz Ludwig Späth. The Common Lilac cultivar A cultivar is a type of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and when propagated retai ...

(1793–1883) retired,Späth, L. (1930). ''Späth-Buch'' 1720 - 1930, Self-Verlag, Berlin. until his death, when the nursery passed to his own son Hellmut Ludwig Späth (1885–1945). With his father Ludwig, Franz was a co-founder of the German Pomologists Association in 1860, and was made an honorary member in 1903.

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19th-century German botanists Nurserymen 1839 births 1913 deaths {{Germany-botanist-stub