Carl Otto Robert Peter Paul Graebner (29 June 1871 in
Aplerbeck – 6 February 1933 in
Berlin) was a German
botanist
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In 1895 he obtained his doctorate in Berlin, successively working as an assistant and then as
curator (1904) at the botanical gardens. During the 1890s he performed botanical investigations in
Jerichower Land and
Vorharz with
Paul Ascherson (1834–1913).
He later became a professor at the
Botanical Garden and Museum in Berlin-Dahlem, from where he conducted
floristic and
phytogeographical research.
Selected writings
* ''Synopsis der mitteleuropaischen Flora'' (with
Paul Ascherson), from 1896 - Synopsis of
Central European flora.
* ''Typhaceae u. Sparganiaceae'', 1900 -
Typhaceae and
Sparganiaceae
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* ''Lehrbuch der ökologischen pflanzengeographie'', 1902 (German translation of
Eugen Warming's
original book in Danish) - Textbook of
ecological phytogeography.
* ''Heide und moor'', 1909 -
Heath and
moor.
* ''Lehrbuch der allgemeinen Pflanzengeographie, nach entwicklungsgeschichtlichen und physiologisch-ökologischen Gesichtspunkten'', 1929 - Textbook of general phytogeography, through developmental and physiologic-ecological aspects.
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20th-century German botanists
German phytogeographers
Scientists from North Rhine-Westphalia
1933 deaths
1871 births