Charles Baehni (21 August 1906 – 23 January 1964) was a Swiss botanist who made important contributions to scientific knowledge in the

botanical Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

field.

Biography

Professor Charles Baehni was born on 21 August 1906 in Geneva, Switzerland. He was educated at the

University of Geneva The University of Geneva (French: ''Université de Genève'') is a public university, public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded in 1559 by French theologian John Calvin as a Theology, theological seminary. It rema ...

, and was supervised by Professor Robert Chodat where in 1932 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science. That same year he was appointed as an assistant at the

Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva The Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the city of Geneva () is a museum and an institution of the City of Geneva. Establishment and location It was founded in 1817 in a former area of ''Bastions Park'' in 1817 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle ...

. In 1934, he studied at the Botanical Garden of the Field Museum in Chicago, and while in the United States, he made many trips to various parts of the country and collected extensive botanical findings."Prof. Charles Baehni"
''Nature Journal'', April, 1964. Retrieved on 20 June 2014. In 1941, he was appointed conservator of the Botanical Garden in Geneva. He served as the director of the Conservatory and Botanical Garden, in Geneva, Switzerland, for twenty years."Le Professeur Charles BAEHNI (1907-1964) , BHL-Europe"
, ''BHL-Europe'', Jan., 1964. Retrieved on 19 June 2014. He wrote more than one hundred scientific papers and his main interest was in the

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. He also contributed to a number of other botanical families including the Ulmaceae, Lacistemaceae, and Violaceae.

References

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