Kurt Krause (April 20, 1883 in
Potsdam
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– November 19, 1963 in
Berlin
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) was a German
botanist
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who wrote 33 articles and five books on the
flora and vegetation of Turkey. Between 1933 and 1939, he was a professor of botany at the
Ankara Agricultural Institute. Krause retired in 1950.
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1883 births
20th-century German botanists
German non-fiction writers
Ankara University people
1963 deaths
Scientists from Potsdam
20th-century non-fiction writers
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