Portraits of Oscar Brefeld and Karl von Goebel
ID: SIA2007-0368
Creator: Unknown
Form/Genre: Paper
Date: 1892
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Box 2, Folder: Brefeld, Oscar
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A copy of print portraits from the Swedish horticulture journal, Acta horti Bergiani, Bd II, No. 2, Tafl. 27 (1892). The portrait to the left is Julius Oscar Brefeld (1839-1925), a German botanist who was an expert in mycology, or the study of fungi, at age 53. The portrait to the right is of Karl Immanuel Eberhard Ritter von Goebel (1855-1932), a German botanist who specialized in the anatomy, morphology, and developmental physiology of plants.
Subject
- Goebel, K (Karl) 1855-1932
- Brefeld, Oscar 1839-1925
Category
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes
- Julius Oscar Brefeld studied in Heidelberg and Berlin. In 1878, he became a lecturer of botany at the Eberswalde Forestry Academy at Eberswalde. Then in 1882, Brefeld joined the University of Münster as a professor of botany and manager of its botanical gardens. He retired in 1909.
- Karl Immanuel Eberhard Ritter von Goebel attended the University of Tuebingen. In 1880, Goebel became a lecturer at the University of Wuerzburg. He became an associate professor at Strasbourg in 1881, and 1882 associate professor at the University of Rostock. In 1884, he established the botanical garden and a botanical institute at the University of Rostock. Later, Goebel held professorships at Marburg and the University of Munich. While at the University of Munich, Goebel helped establish and directed the Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg.
- Both Brefeld and Goebel worked under Heinrich Anton de Bary, a founder of both plant pathology and modern mycology.
Contained within
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Box 2, Folder: Brefeld, Oscar
Contact information
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Date
1892
Restrictions & Rights
No restrictions
Topic
- Prints and Drawings
- Mycology
- Botany
- Scientists
- Plants
- Botanists
- Germans
Form/Genre
- Paper
- Document
ID Number
SIA2007-0368
Physical description
Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 6w x4h; Type of Image: Document; Medium: Paper