Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
German botanist
Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant... Wikipedia
Born: February 14, 1776, Erfahrungsfeld Castle Reichenberg, Reichelsheim, Germany
Died: March 16, 1858 (age 82 years), Wrocław, Poland
Notable student: Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini
Education: University of Giessen (1800) and Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, (1795–1799)
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