Karl Rechinger was an Austrian botanist born in Vienna

Vienna

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. He was the father of botanist Karl Heinz Rechinger

Karl Heinz Rechinger

Karl Rechinger was an Austrian botanist born in Vienna. He was the son of botanist Karl Rechinger .Rechinger was professor of botany at the University of Vienna. He was in 1971 elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences....

 (1906-1998).

He studied at the University of Vienna

University of Vienna

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, and from 1902 to 1922 was a museum curator

Curator

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 at the botanical division of the Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

 Naturhistorisches Museum

Naturhistorisches Museum

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. In 1905 with his wife Lily Rechinger-Favarger (1880-1973), he participated on an expedition to Oceania, where he performed botanical research in Samoa

German Samoa

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, the Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands

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 and New Guinea

New Guinea

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. As a result of the journey he published the following two works:

• Deutsch Neu-Guinea. Streifzüge in Deutsch Neu-Guinea and auf den Salomons-Inseln, (1908)
• Botanische and zoologische Ergebnisse einer wissenschaftlichen Forschungsreise nach den Samoa-Inseln, dem Neuguinea-Archipel and den Salomons-Inseln, (1908-15)