Georg Albrecht Klebs

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Georg Albrecht Klebs.

Georg Albrecht Klebs (born October 23, 1857 in Neidenburg , East Prussia (now Nidzica , Poland ); † October 25, 1918 in Heidelberg ) was a German botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " GAKlebs ".

Klebs' grave slab in Heidelberg

Georg Klebs studied chemistry , philosophy and art history at the University of Königsberg from 1874 . After studying botany, he became Anton de Bary's assistant at the University of Strasbourg . After military service he became an assistant to Julius Sachs at the University of Würzburg and to Wilhelm Pfeffer at the University of Tübingen .

In 1883 he received the venia legendi from the University of Tübingen.

In 1887 he became a professor at the University of Basel , where Carl Emanuel Burckhardt was his student. 1898 at the University of Halle and 1907 at the University of Heidelberg .

Klebs is considered to be the founder of botanical developmental physiology .

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  • On the Developmental Physiology of the Fern Prosthetics , 3 volumes, 1917
  • Contributions to the physiology of the plant cell , 1888
  • Reproduction conditions for some algae and fungi , 1896, 2nd edition 1928
  • Arbitrary developmental changes in plants. A contribution to the physiology of development , 1903; Reprint, VDM, Saarbrücken, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8364-1798-3 .

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