Moritz Heinrich Wilhelm Albert Emil (Moritz) Büsgen
1858–1921
German botanist. Studied at Bonn, Berlin, and Straßburg (Strasbourg), where he studied under Anton de Bary and later was his assistant at the Zoological Station at Naples. PhD, Straßburg, 1882; Privat-dozent, then professor extraordinarius in botany, Jena, 1886–92. Professor of botany, school of forestry, Eisenach, 1893–1901; Hann. Münden, 1901–21. Made research expeditions to the Dutch East Indies, 1902–3; Cameroon and Togo, 1908–9.
Sources
Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon (1920), www.ub.bildarchiv-dkg.uni-frankfurt.de/Bildprojekt/Lexikon/lexikon.htm (accessed 2 September 2020)
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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