Georg Hans Emmo Wolfgang Hieronymus (1846–1921) was a European

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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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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

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, from 1874 to 1883. While in South America, he investigated flora native to

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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 ''

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'' 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