Karl Immanuel Eberhard Ritter von Goebel FRS FRSE (8 March 1855,

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, Baden – 9 October 1932, Munich) was a German botanist. His main fields of study were comparative functional anatomy, morphology, and the developmental physiology of plants under the influence of both phylogenetic and extrinsic factors.

Life

Starting in 1873, Goebel studied theology and philosophy, as well as botany with Wilhelm Hofmeister, at the University of Tuebingen. In 1876 he moved to Strasbourg, where he worked with Anton de Bary, and from which he graduated in 1877 with his Ph.D. In 1878, Goebel became assistant to Julius von Sachs, and in 1880 a lecturer at the University of Würzburg. In 1881 he became first assistant to August Schenk of the University of Leipzig, then an associate professor at Strasbourg, and 1882 associate professor at the University of Rostock, where in 1884 he founded the botanical garden and a botanical institute. From 1887–1891 he was a professor at Marburg, and from 1891–1931 at the University of Munich, where he laid out the new

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, and served as its first director. In 1885–1886 he undertook research trips to

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and Java, in 1890–1891 Venezuela and then

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. Goebel was editor of "Flora" from 1889 onwards. In 1892 he became a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (later serving as President). In 1910 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the

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. In 1911, botanist Franz Stephani published ''Goebeliellaceae'', which is a family of liverworts belonging to the order

Porellales Porellales is an order of liverworts. Taxonomy * Jubulineae Müller 1909 ** Frullaniaceae Lorch 1914 *** ''Frullania'' Raddi 1818a Amphijubula.html" ;"title="'Amphijubula">'Amphijubula'' Schuster 1970a; ''Schusterella'' Hattori, Sharp & Mizu ...

. The family consists of only one genus: ''

Goebeliella Goebeliellaceae is a family of liverworts belonging to the order Porellales. The family consists of only one genus: ''Goebeliella'' Steph.. The genus name of ''Goebeliella'' is in honour of Karl von Goebel (1855–1932), who was a German botanis ...

'' Steph., which was named in Goebel's honour. In 1914 was named a foreign member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome, and in 1926 was elected to the Royal Society. In 1931, he was awarded the

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of the Linnean Society of London.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Goebel, Karl, Ritter von 1855 births 1932 deaths 19th-century German botanists University of Greifswald faculty Honorary Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Foreign Members of the Royal Society Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925) Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences University of Strasbourg alumni 20th-century German botanists People from Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala