Poland
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; died 1938 in Eisenach
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) was a Poland-born German botanist
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In 1890, he was habilitated for botany at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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, 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 fern
'', a moss
'', a brown alga
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ic botany, bacteriology
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, and plant physiology
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. He is remembered for describing the proteobacteria
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l genus ''Pseudomonas
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'', 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
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, developmental history and systematics of bacteria]
* ''Pflanzenbiologie'', 1900 [Plant biology](publications) * ''Morphologie, Anatomie und Physiologie der Pflanzen'', 2nd edition 190
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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