Federico Kurtz
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Federico Kurtz, also known as Fritz (1854–1920), was a German-Argentine
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Biography

Fritz Kurtz was born in
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and earned his
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from the
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in 1879. He relocated to
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, and in 1884, took over the chair of botany at the
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. Building on the performance studies and
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begun under his predecessor, Dr. Paul Lorentz, Kurtz expanded the school's collections and published key works in the study of botany and
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in Argentina. He directed the university's Museum of Botany. He was an active member of the National Academy of Sciences of Córdoba, initiating the exchange of research and material with similar institutions from around the world. His tenure at the Department of Botany influenced numerous younger Argentine naturalists, notably Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg and Juan Domíguez. Kurtz retired from his post in 1915, and died in Córdoba in 1921. His private
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and library were acquired by the National University of Córdoba and were incorporated into the Museum of Botany. The ''Kurtz'' nomenclature is used for the
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of the numerous species he classified in his career.The International Plant Names Index
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1854 births 1921 deaths Humboldt University of Berlin alumni Emigrants from the German Empire to Argentina 20th-century Argentine botanists 19th-century Argentine botanists {{argentina-botanist-stub