Otto Porsch 12 September 1875 – 2 January 1959) was an Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

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Biologist

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After his Ph.D he worked with Gottlieb Haberlandt

Gottlieb Haberlandt

Gottlieb Haberlandt was an Austrian botanist.Haberlandt first pointed out the possibilities of the culture of isolated tissues...

 in Graz and did his habilitation with Richard Wettstein

Richard Wettstein

Richard Wettstein was an Austrian botanist.Wettstein introduced the phylogenetic system into botany. He was a Professor at the University of Prague from 1892, and at the University of Vienna from 1899. He newly laid out the Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna.- Notes :...

 in Vienna. He became first director of the botanical garden in Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi

Chernivtsi

Chernivtsi is the administrative center of Chernivtsi Oblast in southwestern Ukraine. The city is situated on the upper course of the River Prut, a tributary of the Danube, in the northern part of the historic region of Bukovina, which is currently divided between Romania and Ukraine...

, Ukraine) and later professor at the University of Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi University

Chernivtsi University

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). Porsch became director of the botanical institute in Vienna in 1920. He retired in 1945 and died in 1959.