About Friedrich Alexander Buhse
Lived 1821 – 1898 (aged 77). Friedrich Alexander Buhse was a Russian biologist, botanist and meteorologist.
Friedrich Alexander Buhse (30 November 1821, Riga – 29 December 1898) was a Baltic-German botanist.
From 1840 he studied botany at the universities of Dorpat, Berlin and Heidelberg, receiving his PhD in 1843. In 1847–49, with Pierre Edmond Boissier, he collected plants in Transcaucasia and Persia. In 1852 he became a correspondent member of the Société linnéenne de Lyon.
With Boissier he circumscribed many species of plants. The botanical genus Buhsia (family Capparaceae) was named in his honor by Alexander Bunge.
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Baltic German botanist (1821-1898)
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Friedrich Alexander Buhse was born on 30 November 1821 in Riga.
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Friedrich Alexander Buhse died on 29 December 1898.
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Friedrich Alexander Buhse was a biologist, botanist and meteorologist.
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Friedrich Alexander Buhse was Russian.
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