Nathanael Pringsheim
1823–94
German botanist. PhD, Berlin, 1848; privat-dozent, 1851; professor extraordinarius, 1864. Professor and director of the botanic garden, Jena, 1864–9; director, phytophysiological institute, 1865–9. Founding editor, Jahrbücher für wissenschaftliche Botanik, 1857–94. A founder and president of the German botanical society, 1882–94. Helped establish the biological station at Helgoland. Worked on algal sexuality and later on the function of chlorophyll.
Sources
NDB
DSB.
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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