Franz Engel (naturalist)

Franz Engel ( born July 21, 1834 in Robel / Müritz, † August 30 1920 in Neubrandenburg; Complete name: Theodor Franz Johann August Engel ) was a German explorer. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Angel".

Life and work

Franz Engel was born and one of nine children of lawyers and Röbeler mayor Christian Engel and his wife Ulrike Classe ( 1793-1881 ). He studied natural sciences in Berlin and Leipzig. From 1857 he traveled to Venezuela and New Granada, then took over the management of a plantation in Zulia and later managing a large landed estates in the mountainous country of Mérida.

1863 angel returned back to Europe, then made in 1870 as a volunteer with the German -French war and came after the peace settlement as a research assistant in the management of the Museum of the Agricultural College of Berlin, whose librarian he was.

Publications

  • Palmae columbianae novae ( Schlechtendal / Linnaea, 33 ), Halle, 1865.
  • Studies under the American tropics. Jena 1878; new edition udT: From the nature and life of the people of the tropical Americas, 1886.
  • Immigration and colonization in tropical America. Leipzig 1880.
  • Ways flowers from the knapsack of a traveling journeymen. Collection of poems, Berlin 1883.
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