Georg Albrecht Klebs
Georg Albrecht Klebs
Born(1857-10-23)23 October 1857
Neidenburg, Province of Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia
Died15 October 1918(1918-10-15) (aged 60)
Heidelberg, German Empire
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Königsberg
Known forDevelopmental physiology
AwardsCroonian Lecture
Scientific career
FieldsBotanist
InstitutionsUniversity of Basel
University of Halle
University of Heidelberg
Doctoral advisorJulius von Sachs
Doctoral studentsErnst Bessey

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 Caucasus, and southern Russia. In 1913 he participated in an expedition to Egypt. He died in Heidelberg from influenza during the 1918 influenza pandemic.

Publications

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

References and external links

  1. ^ International Plant Names Index.  G.A.Klebs.
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