Paul Johannes Brühl

Paul Johannes Brühl (25 February 1855 – 1935) was a German-origin professor of botany who worked in India, mainly at the

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. Brühl was born in

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to Michael Brühl and was educated in Germany and received a scholarship to travel and collect botanical specimens through Europe. He then walked across Europe into Asia Minor. He taught briefly in Constantinople and reached India in 1881 and taught science at the

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in 1882. He married Annie Betts Fox in 1883 and through the influence of Sir

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, he joined the Bengal Engineering College in 1887 where he taught chemistry, geology, and agriculture. He was popular and known for his sympathetic handling of students. He retired from the engineering college in 1912 and worked briefly at the

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in Bangalore. In 1913 he was invited by Sir

Ashutosh Mukherjee Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee (anglicised, originally Asutosh Mukhopadhyay, also anglicised to Asutosh Mookerjee) (29 June 1864 – 25 May 1924) was a prolific Bengali educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician. He was the first student to be awar ...

to serve as registrar for Calcutta University. He later served as a professor of botany. He worked on control of the

water hyacinth ''Pontederia crassipes'' (formerly ''Eichhornia crassipes''), commonly known as common water hyacinth is an aquatic plant native to South America, naturalized throughout the world, and often invasive outside its native range.1855 births 1935 deaths Academic staff of Presidency University, Kolkata 19th-century German botanists 20th-century German botanists