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NEES VON ESENBECK, See also:

CHRISTIAN GOTTFRIED (1776-1858) , See also:German botanist and entomologist, was See also:born at See also:Erbach on the 14th of See also:February 1776, and was educated at See also:Darmstadt and at See also:Jena, where he took the degree of M.D. After spending some See also:time in medical practice he was appointed See also:professor of See also:botany in See also:Erlangen in 1816. Three years later he became professor of natural See also:history in See also:Bonn, and in 1831 he was appointed to the See also:chair of botany in the university of See also:Breslau. In 1848 he entered See also:political See also:life and made himself so See also:obnoxious to the See also:government that in 1851 he was deprived of his professorship, and in consequence the latter years of his life were spent in See also:great poverty. He died in Breslau on the 16th of See also:March 1858. For about See also:forty years he edited the Nova acts of the " Acad. See also:Leopold-Carolina," in which several of his own papers were published. His earliest See also:memoirs dealt with the ichneumons, and he published a Monographic der Ichneumone in 2 Vols. in 1828, and Hymenopterorum Ichneumonibus affinium rnonographiae, in 2 vols. in 1834. His other See also:separate See also:works include: See also:Die Algen See also:des siissen Wassers nach ihren Entwickelungsstufen dargestellt (1814) ; Das See also:System der Plize and Schwamme (1816); Naturgeschichte der europaischen Lebermoose, in 4 vols. (1833-1838) ; " AgrostoloFia Brasiliensis," in the See also:Flora Brasiliensis; and a Systema Laursneaeum (1836). He also wrote numerous monographs in Flora, in Linnaea and in other scientific German magazines, either alone or along with other well-known See also:Fungi, the Hepaticae and the Glumiferae, in all which See also:groups he made valuable additions to knowledge. His See also:brother THEODOR See also:FRIEDRICH See also:LUDWIG (1787-1837), inspector of the botanic gardens at See also:Leiden, and afterwards professor of See also:pharmacy at Bonn, also wrote numerous papers on botanical subjects, dealing more particularly with medicinal See also:plants and their products.

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