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Julius Rudolph Theodor (Theodor) Vogel

1812–41

German botanist. PhD, University of Berlin, 1837 (his thesis was a synopsis of the genus Cassia); privat-dozent, botany department, 1838. Privat-dozent, University of Bonn, 1839. Worked on the Leguminosae with M. J. Schleiden. Took part in a British expedition to the Niger river from May 1841 and died of fever on the island of Fernando Po (now Bioko) in December 1841.

Source

W. J. Hooker 1849, pp. 1–21.

Bibliography

Hooker, William Jackson. 1849. Niger flora; or, an enumeration of the plants of western tropical Africa collected by the late Dr. Theodore Vogel… including Spicilegia Gorgonea, by P. B. Webb … and flora Nigritiana, by Dr J. D. Hooker … and George Bentham. London: Hippolyte Bailliere. Paris: J. B. Bailliere. Madrid: Bailly Bailliere.

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