Karl Suessenguth (22 June 1893,

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– 7 April 1955,

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) was a German

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. He studied under

Karl Ritter von Goebel Karl Immanuel Eberhard Ritter von Goebel FRS FRSE (8 March 1855, Billigheim, Baden – 9 October 1932, Munich) was a German botanist. His main fields of study were comparative functional anatomy, morphology, and the developmental physiology of p ...

at the

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, where in 1927 he became a professor of botany. From 1927 to 1955 he was

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of the ''Botanische Staatssammlung München''.CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms
by Umberto Quattrocchi As a taxonomy (biology), taxonomist, he classified many plants within the family Amaranthaceae. The botanical genera ''Suessenguthia'' (family Acanthaceae) and ''Suessenguthiella'' (family Molluginaceae) commemorate his name.

Written works

He was an editor of the multi-volume ''Illustrierte Flora von Mittel-Europa'' (Illustrated Flora of Central Europe) and the author of the following works: * "Amarantaceae of southeastern Polynesia" (in English) Honolulu, Hawaii, The Museum, 1936. * ''Neue Ziele der Botanik'', 1938 – New objectives of botany. * ''Ueber einige amerikanische "Amarantaceae" und "Rhamnaceae"'', 1939 – On American Amarantaceae und Rhamnaceae.
''Mitteilungen Der Botanischen Staatssammlung München''
(as editor) – Journal of the Botanische Staatssammlung München.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Suessenguth, Karl 1893 births 1955 deaths Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich faculty 20th-century German botanists People from Bad Kissingen (district) German taxonomists