Carl Otto Robert Peter Paul Graebner (29 June 1871 in

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– 6 February 1933 in

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) was a German

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. In 1895 he obtained his doctorate in Berlin, successively working as an assistant and then as

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(1904) at the botanical gardens. During the 1890s he performed botanical investigations in

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and

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with Paul Ascherson (1834–1913). He later became a professor at the Botanical Garden and Museum in Berlin-Dahlem, from where he conducted

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and phytogeographical research.

Selected writings

* ''Synopsis der mitteleuropaischen Flora'' (with Paul Ascherson), from 1896 - Synopsis of

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an flora. * ''Typhaceae u. Sparganiaceae'', 1900 -

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and Sparganiaceae. * ''Lehrbuch der ökologischen pflanzengeographie'', 1902 (German translation of

Eugen Warming Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming (3 November 1841 – 2 April 1924), known as Eugen Warming, was a Danish botanist and a main founding figure of the scientific discipline of ecology. Warming wrote the first textbook (1895) on plant ecology, tau ...

's original book in Danish) - Textbook of

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phytogeography. * ''Heide und moor'', 1909 -

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and moor. * ''Lehrbuch der allgemeinen Pflanzengeographie, nach entwicklungsgeschichtlichen und physiologisch-ökologischen Gesichtspunkten'', 1929 - Textbook of general phytogeography, through developmental and physiologic-ecological aspects.WorldCat Identities
(publications)

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Graebner, Paul 20th-century German botanists German phytogeographers Scientists from North Rhine-Westphalia 1933 deaths 1871 births