Georg Klebs

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Georg Albrecht Klebs
Georg Albrecht Klebs
Born	(1857-10-23)23 October 1857 Neidenburg, Province of Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia
Died	15 October 1918(1918-10-15) Heidelberg, German Empire
Residence	Germany
Nationality	German
Fields	Botanist
Institutions	University of Basel University of Halle University of Heidelberg
Alma mater	University of Königsberg
Doctoral advisor	Julius von Sachs
Doctoral students	Ernst Bessey
Known for	Developmental physiology
Notable awards	Croonian Lecture

Georg Albrecht Klebs (23 October 1857 – 15 October 1918) was a German botanist from Neidenburg (Nidzica), Prussia. His brother was the historian Elimar Klebs.

Life

Klebs studied chemistry, philosophy, and art history at the University of Königsberg and became an assistant to Anton de Bary at the University of Strassburg. After his military service, Klebs became an assistant to Julius Sachs at the University of Würzburg and Wilhelm Pfeffer at the University of Tübingen. He became a professor at the University of Basel in 1887, the University of Halle in 1898, and the University of Heidelberg in 1907, where he founded today's botanical garden, the Botanischer Garten der Universität Heidelberg.

Klebs received a Croonian Lectureship in 1910. From 1910 to 1912 he travelled through Siberia, Japan, Java, India, the Caucausus, and southern Russia. In 1913 he participated in an expedition to Egypt. He died in Heidelberg from influenza during the 1918 influenza pandemic.

Zur Entwicklungsphysiologie der Farnprothaillen, 3 Bände, 1917
Beiträge zur Physiologie der Pflanzenzelle, 1888
Die Bedingungen der Fortpflanzung bei einigen Algen und Pilzen, 1896, 2. Auflage 1928
Willkürliche Entwicklungsänderungen bei Pflanzen – Ein Beitrag zur Physiologie der Entwicklung, 1903

The standard author abbreviation G.A.Klebs is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 19795697 LCCN: n87127094 ISNI: 0000 0001 0876 7589 GND: 116207191 SUDOC: 06702145X BNF: cb12565775k

Persondata
Name	Klebs, Georg Albrecht
Alternative names
Short description	German Botanist
Date of birth	23 October 1857
Place of birth	Neidenburg, Kingdom of Prussia
Date of death	15 October 1918
Place of death	Heidelberg, German Empire

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