Walter Migula

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Emil Friedrich August Walter
Born(1863-11-04)November 4, 1863
DiedJune 23, 1938(1938-06-23) (aged 74)
NationalityGerman
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsKarlsruhe Institute of Technology

Emil Friedrich August Walter (or Walther) Migula (born 1863 in Zyrowa, Prussia (present-day Poland); died 1938 in Eisenach, Germany) was a German botanist.

In 1890, he was habilitated for botany at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where he spent several years as a professor. At Karlsruhe, he also worked in the bacteriology department of the Food Research Institute. He was Professor of Botany at the research academy at Eisenach. [1]

He published many articles on the subjects of cryptogamic botany, bacteriology, and plant physiology. He is remembered for describing the bacterial genus Pseudomonas , and for publication of Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Deutsch-Österreich und der Schweiz [Cryptogamic Flora of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland], a work connected with Otto Wilhelm Thomé's Flora von Deutschland [Plants of Germany]. [2] Other significant works by Migula include:

The standard author abbreviation Mig. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. [4]

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References

  1. http://caliban.mpipz.mpg.de/migula/flora_2/high/IMG_9079.jpg Archived 2016-10-12 at the Wayback Machine [ bare URL image file ]
  2. HathiTrust Digital Library Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, etc
  3. WorldCat Identities (publications)
  4. International Plant Names Index.  Mig.