Anton Kerner von Marilaun
Austrian botanist
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- PhD Botany University of Vienna
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun, or Anton Joseph Kerner, was an Austrian botanist and professor at the University of Vienna. Career Kerner was born in Mautern, Lower Austria, and studied medicine in Vienna followed by an education in natural history, for which he carried out phytosociologic studies in Central Europe. In 1858 Kerner was appointed professor of botany at the Polytechnic Institute at Buda, and then in 1860 was appointed professor of natural history at the University of Innsbruck. He resigned the latter position in 1878 to become professor of systematic botany at the University of Vienna, and also curator of the botanical garden there. As part of his expansive Flora exsiccata Austro-Hungarica exsiccata, von Marilaun recruited botanists including Richard Wettstein and Karl Eggerth.
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