Georg Klebs

Infobox_Scientist
name = Georg Albrecht Klebs

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caption = Georg Albrecht Klebs
birth_date = birth date|1857|10|23|df=y
birth_place = Neidenburg, Kingdom of Prussia
residence = Germany
nationality = German
death_date = death date|1918|10|15|df=y
death_place = Heidelburg, German Empire
field = Botanist
work_institution = University of Basel
University of Halle
University of Heidelberg
alma_mater = University of Königsberg
doctoral_advisor = Julius von Sachs
doctoral_students = Ernst Bessey
known_for = Developmental physiology
prizes = Croonian Lecture
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Georg Albrecht Klebs (23 October 1857 – 15 October 1918) was a German botanist from Neidenburg (Nidzica), Prussia. His brother was the historian Elimar Klebs.

Life

Klebs studied chemistry, philosophy, and art history at the University of Königsberg and became an assistant to Anton de Bary at the University of Strassburg. After his military service, Klebs became an assistant to Julius Sachs at the University of Würzburg and Wilhelm Pfeffer at the University of Tübingen. He became a professor at the University of Basel in 1887, the University of Halle in 1898, and the University of Heidelberg in 1907.

Klebs received a Croonian Lectureship in 1910. From 1910–12 he travelled through Siberia, Japan, Java, India, the Caucausus, and southern Russia. In 1913 he participated in an expedition to Egypt. He died in Heidelberg from influenza.

Publications

* "Zur Entwicklungsphysiologie der Farnprothaillen", 3 Bände, 1917
* "Beiträge zur Physiologie der Pflanzenzelle", 1888
* "Die Bedingungen der Fortpflanzung bei einigen Algen und Pilzen", 1896, 2. Auflage 1928
* "Willkürliche Entwicklungsänderungen bei Pflanzen – Ein Beitrag zur Physiologie der Entwicklung", 1903

External links

* [http://www.catalogus-professorum-halensis.de/klebsgeorgalbrecht.html Biography] de icon