Emil Friedrich August Walter (or Walther) Migula (born 1863 in Żyrowa,

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

; died 1938 in

Eisenach Eisenach () is a town in Thuringia, Germany with 42,000 inhabitants, located west of Erfurt, southeast of Kassel and northeast of Frankfurt. It is the main urban centre of western Thuringia and bordering northeastern Hessian regions, situat ...

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) was a Poland-born German

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

. In 1890, he was habilitated for botany at

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; german: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 ...

, where he spent several years as a professor. At Karlsruhe, he also worked in the bacteriology department of the Food Research Institute. He was Professor of Botany at the research academy at Eisenach. He published many articles on the subjects of

cryptogam A cryptogam (scientific name Cryptogamae) is a plant (in the wide sense of the word) or a plant-like organism that reproduces by spores, without flowers or seeds. The name ''Cryptogamae'' () means "hidden reproduction", referring to the fact ...

ic botany,

bacteriology Bacteriology is the branch and specialty of biology that studies the morphology, ecology, genetics and biochemistry of bacteria as well as many other aspects related to them. This subdivision of microbiology involves the identification, classificat ...

, and

plant physiology Plant physiology is a subdiscipline of botany concerned with the functioning, or physiology, of plants. Closely related fields include plant morphology (structure of plants), plant ecology (interactions with the environment), phytochemistry (b ...

. He is remembered for describing the

bacteria Bacteria (; singular: bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell. They constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria were am ...

l genus ''

Pseudomonas ''Pseudomonas'' is a genus of Gram-negative, Gammaproteobacteria, belonging to the family Pseudomonadaceae and containing 191 described species. The members of the genus demonstrate a great deal of metabolic diversity and consequently are able t ...

'', and for publication of ''Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Deutsch-Österreich und der Schweiz'' ryptogamic_Flora_of_Germany,_Austria,_and_Switzerland.html" ;"title="Austria.html" ;"title="ryptogamic Flora of Germany, Austria">ryptogamic Flora of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland">Austria.html" ;"title="ryptogamic Flora of Germany, Austria">ryptogamic Flora of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland], a work connected with Otto Wilhelm Thomé's ''Flora von Deutschland'' [Plants of Germany]. Other significant works by Migula include: * ''Die Bakterien'', 1891 [Bacteria] * ''System der Bakterien. Handbuch der Morphologie, Entwicklungsgeschichte und Systematik der Bakterien'', 1897–1900. (two volumes) morphology,_developmental_history_and_systematics_of_bacteria.html" ;"title="morphology_(biology).html" ;"title="ystem for bacteria. Handbook of morphology (biology)">morphology, developmental history and systematics of bacteria">morphology_(biology).html" ;"title="ystem for bacteria. Handbook of morphology (biology)">morphology, developmental history and systematics of bacteria* ''Pflanzenbiologie'', 1900 [Plant biology]WorldCat Identities
(publications) * ''Morphologie, Anatomie und Physiologie der Pflanzen'', 2nd edition 190
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by the

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* http://www.chem-bio.uni-karlsruhe.de/19.php * {{DEFAULTSORT:Migula, Walter 20th-century German botanists German microbiologists German phycologists 1863 births 1938 deaths Karlsruhe Institute of Technology faculty 19th-century German botanists