Georg Klebs

Georg Albrecht Klebs ( born October 23, 1857 in Neidenburg, East Prussia (now Nidzica, Poland), † October 25, 1918 in Heidelberg ) was a German botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " GAKlebs ".

Georg Klebs studied from 1874 chemistry, philosophy and art history at the University of Königsberg. After study of botany, he became assistant to Anton de Bary at the University of Strasbourg. After military service, he became an assistant to Julius Sachs at the University of Würzburg and Wilhelm Pfeffer at the University of Tübingen.

In 1883 he received the venia legendi the University of Tübingen.

In 1887 he became a professor at the University of Basel, 1898 at the University of Halle in 1907 at the University of Heidelberg.

Klebs regarded as the founder of the botanical developmental physiology.

Writings

  • For the development of physiology Farnprothaillen, 3 volumes, 1917
  • Contributions to the physiology of the plant cell, 1888
  • The conditions of reproduction in some algae and fungi, 1896, 2nd edition 1928
  • Arbitrary developmental changes in plants - A contribution to the physiology of development, 1903
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