Joachim Brehm (30 January 1789,

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– 16 April 1860,

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) was a pharmacist and plant collector who collected extensively in southern Africa. He graduated in 1807 in

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and worked as assistant apothecary at

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and

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from 1811 till 1815. He emigrated to work in Cape Town, and was registered as an apothecary chemist in 1820. He developed an interest in botany shortly after his arrival in the Cape, started collecting and did experiments to establish possible medical uses of these plants. In 1822 and 1824,

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published two articles on the collections of seeds, plants and bulbs that were sent to him by Brehm. He later opened a pharmacy in Uitenhage, created a garden and became general practitioner. He also bought two farms near

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. He was commemorated by

William Henry Harvey William Henry Harvey, FRS FLS (5 February 1811 – 15 May 1866) was an Irish botanist and phycologist who specialised in algae. Biography Harvey was born at Summerville near Limerick, Ireland, in 1811, the youngest of 11 children. His father ...

in the genus ''Brehmia'' (a junior synonym of ''

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''), and by

Julius Hermann Schultes Julius Hermann Schultes (4 February 1804 in Vienna – 1 September 1840 in Munich) was an Austrian botanist from Vienna. He co-authored volume 7 of the Roemer & Schultes edition of the ''Systema Vegetabilium'' with his father Josef August S ...

in '' Chlorophytum brehmeanum''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brehm, Joachim 19th-century German botanists German natural history collectors 1789 births 1860 deaths