Moritz August Seubert (2 June 1818, in

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– 8 April 1878, in Karlsruhe) was a German

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Life

Seubert was the son of a medical officer of health. He first attended the ''Lyzeum'' in Karlsruhe and already at that time had contact with the botanist,

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, who interested him in this subject. As of 1836, he studied medicine at the

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and then in 1837, he studied natural science at the

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. His teachers in

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were

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and Johann Jakob Nöggerath. After receiving his

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in Bonn, he moved to the

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, where he qualified as a professor. In 1843, he began teaching as a private lecturer in Bonn.ADB: Seubert, Moritz August
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In 1846, he was offered a chair as professor for

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and

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at the

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as the successor to

. At the same time, he succeeded Braun as the head of the ''Großherzoglichen Naturalienkabinetts'' (Grand Ducal Natural History Specimen Cabinet) and of the Karlsruhe Botanical Gardens. In addition, he was the librarian of the ''Großherzoglichen Hof- und Landesbibliothek'' (Grand Ducal Court and State Library). Besides teaching and administration, Seubert also published several works. His ''Flora azorica'', in which he critically appraised the

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s of

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and his son, Karl Hochstetter, appeared in 1844. He also worked on a series of plant families in ''

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'', published by

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, among which were the

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and

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. In addition, he wrote a ''Lehrbuch der gesamten Pflanzenkunde'' (Textbook of All of Botany), which appeared in five editions. In 1836, his ''Exkursionsflora für das Großherzogthum Baden'' (Study Trip Flora for the

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) appeared and another one for southwestern Germany was published in 1869. In 1843,

Carl Sigismund Kunth Carl Sigismund Kunth (18 June 1788 – 22 March 1850), also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist. He is known for being one of the first to study and categorise plants from the Americas, American c ...

named the genus ''Seubertia'' (family

) in his honor.Index Nominum Genericorum database
Seubertia

Bibliography

* ''Exkursionsflora für das Großherzogthum Baden''. * ''Lehrbuch der gesammten Pflanzenkunde'' . Winter, Leipzig 2. Aufl. 185
Digital edition
by the

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; (fifth edition published in 1870). * ''Flora Azorica'' (with Christian Ferdinand Hochstetter). * ''Symbolae ad erinacei europaei anatomen''.

References

19th-century German botanists 1818 births 1878 deaths Academic staff of the University of Bonn Scientists from Karlsruhe {{Germany-botanist-stub