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Carl Nägeli
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Swiss botanist (1817–1891)
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Carl Nägeli, also known as Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli, was a Swiss botanist, university teacher, biologist and mycologist, born on 26 March 1817 in Kilchberg. He was educated at the University of Geneva and the University of Zurich, and his doctoral advisors were Oswald Heer and Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle. He worked in botany at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, the University of Freiburg, the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, based in Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich.
His own doctoral students included Erich von Tschermak, Eugenius Warming and Carl Eduard Cramer. He was a member of the Royal Society, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, and received the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art. He died on 10 May 1891 in Munich.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1817
- Died
- 1891
- Works
- 10
Top works
- Das Mikroskop, Theorie und Anwendung desselben
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- Mechanisch-physiologische Theorie der Abstammungslehre
- Untersuchungen über Niedere Pilze aus dem Pflanzenphysiologischen Institut in München
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Carl
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Switzerland
- Place of birth
- Kilchberg
- Place of death
- Munich
- Educated at
- University of Zurich
- Employer
- ETH Zurich
- Languages spoken
- German
- Doctoral advisor
- Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle
- Student of
- Oswald Heer
- Doctoral student
- Carl Eduard Cramer
- Field of work
- botany
- Image
- Carl Wilhelm von Naegeli.jpg
- Work location
- Munich
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- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- Commons category
- Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli
- date of death
- 1891-05-10
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- Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli
- name in native language
- Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli
- writing language
- German
- P6944
- Carl Nägeli
- date of birth
- 1817-03-27
- municipal affiliation of a Swiss national
- Kilchberg
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