August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach () was a German botanist and phytogeographer. He was born in

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on 17 April 1814 and died in

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on 9 May 1879.

Biography

Grisebach studied at the Lyceum in

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, the cloister-school at

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, and the

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. He graduated in medicine from the

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in 1836. He undertook expeditions to

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, Turkey, the

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, and

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. In 1837 he became associate professor and in 1847 full professor at the medical faculty in

and was named director of the botanical garden there in 1875. While his main fields of interest were phytogeography and systematics, especially the

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and Malpighiaceae, he considered his ''Flora of the British West Indian Islands'' his most important work. Much of his collection, especially the

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of species described by him, are housed at the Göttingen University Herbarium.Göttingen University, Department of Systematics, Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants (with Herbarium)
/ref> His taxonomic classification is set out in his ''Grundriss der systematischen Botanik'' (1854). His son

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was an author, lawyer and diplomat.

Selected works

* (Grundr. Syst. Bot.: Schema p. 68) * ''Die Vegetation der Erde nach Ihrer Klimatischen Anordnung'' (The Earth's vegetation after its climatic arrangement), 1872 (1st Edition), 1884 (2nd Edition). * ''Flora of the British West Indian Islands'', Lovell Reeve & Co., London, 1864

References

Bibliography

Some Biogeographers, Evolutionists and Ecologists: Chrono-Biographical Sketches

* ttp://www.retrobibliothek.de/retrobib/seite.html?id=107237 Biographical entry in Meyers Konversationslexikon
Obituary in Botanische Zeitung 1879

External links

Complete bibliography on WorldCat

''Plantae Wrightianae e Cuba Orientali'' at Botanicus

''Catalogus plantarum cubensium''
(Catalog of Plants of

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) 1866, at Botanicus
''Plantae Wrightianae e Cuba Orientali'' by A. Grisebach at the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Grisebach, A. (1857) ''Systematische Untersuchungen über die Vegetation der Karaiben, insbesondere der Insel Guadeloupe'' at the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Grisebach, August German phytogeographers 1814 births 1879 deaths German taxonomists Scientists from Hanover People from the Kingdom of Hanover University of Göttingen alumni 19th-century German botanists