Georg Hans Emmo Wolfgang Hieronymus (1846–1921) was a European botanist of German extraction. He was born in Silesia and died in Berlin. He began his career as a medical student in

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and Bern from 1868 to 1870, but became interested in botany, instead. He then studied at the

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, where he earned his doctorate in 1872. Hieronymus was professor of botany in Córdoba, Argentina, from 1874 to 1883. While in South America, he investigated flora native to

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, Bolivia,

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and

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. He also lived in Breslau, 1883–1892, and Berlin, where he was curator of the botanic garden and botanic garden museum starting in 1892. He edited the botanical journal '' Hedwigia'' for 28 years. Hieronymus' specialty was in ferns and algae. He was known for his plant collections in both central Europe and in much of

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Selected works

* Plantae diaphoricae florae argentinae, etc. 1882. * ''Monografía de Lilaea subulata'', 1882 - Monograph on '' Lilaea subulata''. * Icones et descriptiones plantarum, quae sponte in Republica Argentina crescunt. etc. 1885. * ''Beiträge zur Kenntnis der europäischen Zoocecidien und der Verbreitung derselben'', 1890 - Contributions to the knowledge of European

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and the dissemination of the same. * ''Observaciones sobre in vegetación de la provincia de Tucumán'', Observations on vegetation found in

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References

* Pichi-Sermolli, Rodolfo E. G. ''Authors of Scientific Names in Pteridophyta''. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1996. 78pp, PB. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Hieronymus, Georg Hans Emmo Wolfgang Pteridologists 19th-century German botanists 1921 deaths 1846 births University of Halle alumni German phycologists