Wilhelm Olbers Focke
1834–1922
German physician and botanist. Studied medicine in Bonn, 1853–5, and Würzburg, where he received his degree in 1857; passed the state medical exam, Berlin, 1858. Practised medicine in Bremen until 1904, when retired in order to concentrate on science. In botany, he worked mainly on the rose family and its hybrids. Wrote a major work on hybridity, Die Pflanzen-Mischlinge (1881); it included an historical section in which the work of Gregor Mendel (1822–84) was mentioned.
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NDB
Bibliography
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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