Georg Albrecht Klebs was a German

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 botanist from Neidenburg (Nidzica)

Nidzica

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, Prussia

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. His brother was the historian Elimar Klebs

Elimar Klebs

Elimar Klebs was a German historian of ancient history. He was the brother of Georg Klebs.Klebs was born in Braunsberg , Prussia. He studied in Berlin under Theodor Mommsen and Heinrich von Treitschke, receiving his doctorate in 1876 and his habilitation in 1883. He also worked as a Privatdozent...

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Life

Klebs studied chemistry, philosophy, and art history at the University of Königsberg

University of Königsberg

The University of Königsberg was the university of Königsberg in East Prussia. It was founded in 1544 as second Protestant academy by Duke Albert of Prussia, and was commonly known as the Albertina....

 and became an assistant to Anton de Bary

Anton de Bary

Heinrich Anton de Bary was a German surgeon, botanist, microbiologist, and mycologist ....

 at the University of Strassburg. After his military service, Klebs became an assistant to Julius Sachs at the University of Würzburg

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 and Wilhelm Pfeffer

Wilhelm Pfeffer

Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp Pfeffer was a German botanist and plant physiologist who was born in Grebenstein.- Academic career :...

 at the University of Tübingen. He became a professor at the University of Basel

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 in 1887, the University of Halle in 1898, and the University of Heidelberg in 1907, where he founded today's botanical garden

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, the Botanischer Garten der Universität Heidelberg

Botanischer Garten der Universität Heidelberg

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Klebs received a Croonian Lecture

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ship in 1910. From 1910–12 he travelled through Siberia

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, Japan

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, Java

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, India

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, the Caucausus, and southern Russia

Russian Empire

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. In 1913 he participated in an expedition to Egypt

Egypt

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. He died in Heidelberg from influenza

Influenza

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 during the 1918 influenza pandemic

Spanish flu

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Publications

• Zur Entwicklungsphysiologie der Farnprothaillen, 3 Bände, 1917
• Beiträge zur Physiologie der Pflanzenzelle, 1888
• Die Bedingungen der Fortpflanzung bei einigen Algen und Pilzen, 1896, 2. Auflage 1928
• Willkürliche Entwicklungsänderungen bei Pflanzen – Ein Beitrag zur Physiologie der Entwicklung, 1903

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