Eichler, August Wilhelm (ou`g
st vĭl`hĕlm īkh`lər), 1839–87, German botanist. He worked out the symmetry of the parts of a flower and developed a system of plant classification which, after later work on it by Adolf Engler, was widely adopted by European botanists. He wrote a syllabus of pharmaceutical botany.
Eichler, August Wilhelm
st vĭl`hĕlm īkh`lər), 1839–87, German botanist. He worked out the symmetry of the parts of a flower and developed a system of plant classification which, after later work on it by Adolf Engler, was widely adopted by European botanists. He wrote a syllabus of pharmaceutical botany.Eichler, August Wilhelm
Born Apr. 22, 1839, in Neukirchen; died Mar. 2,1887, in Berlin. German botanist.
Eichler graduated from the University of Marburg in 1860. He taught at the University of Munich beginning in 1865 and became professor at the university of Graz (1871), Kiel (1872), and Berlin (1878). His main works dealt with the systematics and comparative morphology of vascular plants. In Diagrams of Flowers (parts 1–2, 1875–78), he surveyed the comparative morphology of flowers of angiosperms. Eichler proposed a phylogenetic system of plants, which was developed by A. Engler.
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[Schumann, R.] “A. W. Eichler.” Berichte der Deutschen Botani-schen Gesellschaft, vol. 5,1887.Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content.
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