Albert Walter Wilhelm Kabsch

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Albert Walter Wilhelm Kabsch (born September 25, 1835 in Breslau ; † June 20, 1864 ) was a botanist who, among other things, dealt with the theories of Charles Darwin . His best-known legacy is a treatise entitled The Plant Life of the Earth , before which he fell to his death on a rock face in the Appenzell Alps .

Life

Wilhelm Kabsch attended the Elisabet-Gymnasium in Breslau. After finishing school he completed an apprenticeship in a pharmacy and then began studying pharmaceuticals at the University of Wroclaw in 1858 . He then worked for some time as an assistant to Carl Löwig , Heinrich Göppert and Ferdinand Cohn . In 1862 Wilhelm Kabsch obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on the solubility of starch and its behavior towards polarized light. During the following years he lived in Zurich , where he earned his living as a pharmacist and private lecturer. During this time he published several scientific, botanical treatises in journals and began to work on a work that should be influenced by popular science in order to be accessible to a larger readership. Kabsch himself did not live to see the publication of this work, as he had a fatal accident while climbing the Hohenkasten in the Appenzell Alps. His friend, the writer Hermann Alexander von Berlepsch (1814-1883), published Kabsch's work posthumously under the title The Plant Life of the Earth. - A plant geography for laypeople and naturalists .

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SURNAME Kabsch, Albert Walter Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION botanist
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1864