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Gustav Mann

1836 – 1916

German botanist

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Lived 1836 – 1916 (aged 80). Gustav Mann was a German botanist and botanical collector.

Gustav Mann (1836–1916) was a German botanist who led expeditions in West Africa and was also a gardener at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Born in the Kingdom of Hanover in 1836, he was chosen by William Jackson Hooker, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to take part in William Balfour Baikie's expedition to West Africa. While there, he sent numerous specimens back to Kew.

Mann's exploration of the Cameroon mountains is described by Sir Richard Burton in Abeokuta and the Camaroon Mountains vol. 2 Mann later collected specimens in Darjeeling, India, before retiring to Munich, Germany, in 1891.

Some 349 species of plants, the genera Manniella Hook.f. and Manniophyton Muell. Arg.; and Mann's Spring on the Cameroon Mountain bear his name.

Personal life He married Mary Anne Stovell in 1863. He died in 1916.

Publications

Mann, G., H. Wendland, Hooker, Sir J. D. On the palms of western tropical Africa. R. Taylor, 1864, London Mann, G. List of Assam ferns. C. Wolf & Sohn, 1898, München Mann, G. "Physiological Histology, Methods and Theory". Clarendon Press, 1902, Oxford

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Who was Gustav Mann?

German botanist (1836-1916)

When was Gustav Mann born?

Gustav Mann was born on 20 January 1836 in Hanover.

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Gustav Mann died on 22 June 1916 in Munich.

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Gustav Mann was a botanist and botanical collector.

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Gustav Mann was German.

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· Wikipedia: Gustav Mann

· Wikidata: Q70799

· DBpedia: Gustav Mann

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