Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Pappe
(1803-1862) German-born physician and botanist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Karl (or "Carl") Wilhelm Ludwig Pappe (1803 in Hamburg ā 14 October 1862) was a German-born physician and botanist who lived and worked in Cape Colony.[1] He was the first person to hold the position of government botanist and the first professor of botany at the South African College. His herbarium became the oldest surviving botanical collection in South Africa.[2]
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Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Pappe | |
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Born | 1803 Hamburg, Germany |
Died | 1862 (aged 58ā59) |
Other names | Carl |
Citizenship | German |
Alma mater | University of Leipzig |
Spouse | Maria Bam Mastaer (or Mestaer) (m.1839) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Medicine Botany |
Institutions | South African College |
Thesis | Enumerationes plantarum phaenogamarum lipsiensium specimen (1827) |
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