Botanists active in Africa Botanists active in Africa Adam Afzelius ( 1750- 1837) was a Swedish botanist. Afzelius was born at Larv in Westrogothia in 1750. He was appointed teacher of oriental languages at Uppsala University in 1777, and in 1785 demonstrator of botany. From 1792 he spent some years on the west coast of Africa, and in 1797-1798 acted as secretary of the Swedish embassy in London. Returning to Sweden, he again took up his position as botanices demonstrator at Uppsala, and was in 1802 elected president of the "Zoophytolithic Society" (later called the Linnaean Institute). In 1812, he became professor of materia medica at the university. He died in Uppsala in 1837. In addition to various botanical writings, he published the autobiography of Carolus Linnaeus in 1823. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adam Afzelius"
Adolf Engler ( 1844 – 1930) was a German botanist, perhaps "The German Botanist". He is very important, among other complishments, for his works on Plant Taxonomy and Phytogeography, like Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien (The natural plant families), edited with Karl A. E. von Prantl. Up to the present time, his foremost system of plant classification, the Engler System, is still used by many herbaria and is followed by writers of many manuals and floras; it is still the only system that treats all 'plants' (in the wider sense, algae to flowering plants) in such depth . ...more on Wikipedia about "Adolf Engler"
Carl Peter Thunberg ( November 11, 1743– August 8, 1828) was a Swedish naturalist. He has been called "the father of South African botany" and the "Japanese Linnaeus". ...more on Wikipedia about "Carl Peter Thunberg"
Francis Masson (August 1741 – 23 December 1805) was a Scottish botanist and gardener, and Kew Gardens’ first plant hunter. ...more on Wikipedia about "Francis Masson"
Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch ( 1806 – October 20, 1872) was an Austrian explorer and botanist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Friedrich Welwitsch"
Georg August Schweinfurth ( December 29, 1836 – September 19, 1925), German botanist, traveller in East Central Africa and ethnologist, was born at Riga, Latvia, Russian Empire. He was educated at the universities of Heidelberg, Munich and Berlin (1856-1862), where he particularly devoted himself to botany and palaeontology. Commissioned to arrange the collections brought from the Sudan by Freiherr von Barnim and Dr Hartmann, his attention was directed to that region; and in 1863 he travelled round the shores of the Red Sea, repeatedly traversed the district between that sea and the Nile, passed on to Khartum, and returned to Europe in 1866. His researches attracted so much attention that in 1868 the Humboldt-Stiftung of Berlin entrusted him with an important scientific mission to the interior of East Africa. Starting from Khartum in January 1869, he went up the White Nile to Bahr-el-Ghazal, and then, with a party of ivory dealers, through the regions inhabited by the Diur (Dyoor), Dinka, Bongo and Niam-Niam; crossing the Nile watershed he entered the country of the Mangbettu (Monbuttu) and discovered the river Welle ( March 19 1870), which by its westward flow he knew was independent of the Nile. ...more on Wikipedia about "Georg August Schweinfurth"
Henri Perrier de la Bâthie ( 1873– 1958) was a French botanist who specialized in the plants of Madagascar. He delineated the two chief floristic provinces of Madagascar (see Ecoregions of Madagascar). Some of his works include La végétation malgache (1921), Biogéographie de plantes de Madagascar (1936), and numerous volumes of the series Flore de Madagascar et des Comores (1946-1952). ...more on Wikipedia about "Henri Perrier de la Bâthie"
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Martin Vahl ( October 10, 1749 - December 24, 1804) was a Norwegian botanist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Martin Vahl"
Philip Barker Webb ( July 10, 1793 - August 31, 1854) was an English botanist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Philip Barker Webb"
René Louiche Desfontaines ( February 14, 1750 – November 16 1833) was a French botanist. ...more on Wikipedia about "René Louiche Desfontaines"
Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter ( 1872- 1925) was a German taxonomist, botanist, and author of several works on orchids. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rudolf Schlechter"
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