Darwin Correspondence Project

German agricultural chemist, botanist, and seed researcher. Doctorate, University of Jena, 1858. Lecturer in plant and animal physiology at Staatliche höhere Gewerbeschule und der landwirtschaftlichen Versuchsstation (state higher vocational college and agricultural experiment station), Chemnitz, 1859–8; professor of biological sciences at Akademie für Forst- und Landwirte (college of forestry and agriculture), Tharandt, 1868–1904. Developed a pioneering seed-testing laboratory and published Handbuch der Samenkunde (Handbook of seed science; 1876).