Karl August Gustav Fiebrig
German-born Paraguayan botanist
About Karl August Gustav Fiebrig
Lived 1869 – 1951 (aged 82). Karl August Gustav Fiebrig was an Argentine, Paraguayan and German botanist, writer, botanical collector, zoological collector and scientific collector.
Karl August Gustav Fiebrig-Gertz (25 May 1869, Hamburg – 25 October 1951, San Miguel de Tucumán) was a German-born Paraguayan botanist.
Early life and education He studied natural sciences in Berlin as a pupil of Adolf Engler.
Career In 1902 travelled to South America in order to collect botanical and entomological specimens for European museums. In 1903–04 he collected in Bolivia, followed by collection duties in Paraguay from 1904 to 1909.
In 1948 he returned to South America, where he worked as a botanist at the Instituto Miguel Lillo in Tucumán, Argentina.
Selected works 1921. Algunos datos sobre aves del Paraguay. 9 pp. 1928. Un diptère ectoparasite sur un phasmide: ... 1910. Cassiden und cryptocephaliden Paraguays: ihre Entwicklungsstadien und Schutzvorrichtungen (Cassiden y cryptocephaliden de Paraguay: sus etapas de desarrollo y la protección). Volumen 12, Nº 2, comentarios zoológicos. Ed. G. Fischer. 264 pp. 1911. Ein Beitrag zun Pflanzengeographie Boliviens (Una contribución a la fitogeografía de Bolivia) karl Fiebrig, teodoro Rojas. 1933. Ensayo fitogeografico sobre el Chaco Boreal .... Ed. Imprenta nacional. 87 pp. m. Michalowski, karl Fiebrig, teodoro Rojas, juan Vogt. Los Árboles y arbustos del Paraguay. Volumen 3 de Revista del Jardín Botánico y Museo de Historia Natural del Paraguay. Ed. Centro de Información Agrícola Ganadera-STICA. 185 pp. 1932. Nomenclatura guaraní de vegetales del Paraguay. 25 pp. 1937. Was ist der Chaco? (¿Qué es el Chaco?). Ed. Ferd. Dümmler. 182 pp. 1937. Deutsche Missionsarbeit im Chaco (el trabajo misionero alemán en el Chaco). Ed. Ferd. 97 pp. 1940. Lebenszähe Pflanzen der südamerikanischen Flora (Plantas rusticadas de la flora de América del Sur). Ed. Friedländer. 114 pp. 1947. Nimm ... und sprich spanisch! (Tome ... y hable castellano!)
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German-born Paraguayan botanist (1869-1951)
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Karl August Gustav Fiebrig was born on 25 May 1869 in Hamburg.
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Karl August Gustav Fiebrig died on 25 October 1951 in San Miguel de Tucumán.
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Karl August Gustav Fiebrig was a botanist, writer, botanical collector, zoological collector and scientific collector.
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Karl August Gustav Fiebrig was Argentine, Paraguayan and German.
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