Paul Erich Otto Wilhelm Knuth (20 November 1854 in Greifswald – 30 October 1900 in Kiel) was a 19th-century

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and pollination ecologist. He studied

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and natural history at the University of Greifswald and obtained his doctorate degree in 1876. He then took up a career as "high school" (Realschule) teacher, first in Iserlohn in Westphalia and from 1881 in Kiel. Parallel with his teaching duties, he found time to study the flora of Schleswig-Holstein and the North Frisian Islands and meticulous studies of plant-pollinator interactions, which he published in his monumental work ''Handbuch der Blütenbiologie''
Handbook of Flower Biology
from 1898 and continued after his death by

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and

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). From 1891 he suffered from illness. He was granted leave of absence to visit the

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, California and

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External links

* ''Handbook of flower pollination based upon Hermann Müller's work "The fertilisation of flowers by insects"'', Clarendon Press, Oxford 1906, JR Ainsworth Davis (tr) German: https://archive.org/details/handbookofflower01knut * ''Handbuch der Blütenbiologie unter zugrundelegung von Hermann Müller's werk: “Die Befruchtung der Blumen durch Insekten”'', Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, 1898. https://archive.org/details/handbookofflower01knut

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Knuth, Paul University of Greifswald alumni 19th-century German botanists 1854 births 1899 deaths