Alexander Carl Heinrich Braun
1805–77
German botanist. Professor of botany, Freiburg, 1846–50. Professor of botany and director of the botanic garden, University of Berlin, 1851–77. Brother-in-law of Louis Agassiz. Deeply influenced by Naturphilosophie; studied plant morphology. Established the doctrine of spiral phyllotaxy.
Sources
DSB
NDB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
NDB: Neue deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 27 vols. (A–Wettiner) to date. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 1953–.
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