Ernst Hans Ludwig Krause (27 July 1859,

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– 1 June 1942, Domjüch/Neustrelitz) was a

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physician,

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and

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. He studied medicine and botany in Berlin, where in 1881 he received his medical doctorate. From 1882 to 1893 he served as a naval medical officer, and later spent several years as a physician to an infantry regiment. From 1904 to 1918 he gave lectures on

plant systematics The history of plant systematics—the biological classification of plants—stretches from the work of ancient Greek to modern evolutionary biologists. As a field of science, plant systematics came into being only slowly, early plant lo ...

and

phytogeography Phytogeography (from Greek φυτόν, ''phytón'' = "plant" and γεωγραφία, ''geographía'' = "geography" meaning also distribution) or botanical geography is the branch of biogeography that is concerned with the geographic distribution o ...

at the

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, and afterwards, relocated to the

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, where from 1921 to 1933, he was an associate professor of botany. From 1933 onward, he worked as a general practitioner in

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. In 1942 he was wounded during a bombing attack in Rostock.

Works

* ''Flora von Rostock'' (1879, co-author Carl Fisch). * ''Pflanzengeographische Übersicht der Flora von Mecklenburg'', Güstrow : Opitz, (1884). * ''Flora der Insel St. Vincent in der Cap verdengruppe'', Leipzig : W. Engelmann (1891). * ''Mecklenburgische Flora''. 1893. In

Jacob Sturm Jacob Sturm (21 March 1771 – 28 November 1848) was a leading engraver of entomological and botanical scientific publications in Germany at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. He was born and lived in Nuremberg and was the ...

's ''Flora von Deutschland'', second edition (1900–1907). * ''Florenkarte von Norddeutschland fur das 12. bis 15. Jahrhundert'' 231–35. * In ''Globus'' 72. Band, 1897 - ''Illustrierte Zeitschrift für Länder- und Völkerkunde''. ** ''Neuere Forschungen in Chichen-Itza (Yucatan)'', S.200-206, 8 Abb., S.219-223, 8 Abb. ** ''E. Deschamps Reise auf Cypern'' (S.328-331, 5 Abb., S.347-351, 6 Abb.). Die englisch-französischen Streitfragen in Westafrika. * ''Fungorum Rostochiensium tabulae X'', Rostock : Winterberg, (1927). * ''Basidiomycetes Rostochiensis'', Rostock Winterberg (1928). * ''Mecklenburgs Basidiomyceten, das sind die Poggenstühle und verwandten Schwämme'' (With Walter Dahnke), Rostock : E.H.L. Krause, (1934).WorldCat Search
published works.

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