About Leopold Quehl
Lived 1849 – 1922 (aged 72–73). Leopold Quehl was a German botanist.
Leopold Quehl (1849–1922) was a German amateur botanist who specialized in Cactaceae.
Biography
Quehl was born in Halle an der Saale, Germany in 1849. He was employed as a postal worker in Halle. Around 1873 he developed an interest in cacti, and subsequently amassed a large collection of living plants as well as creating a herbarium. He was the binomial authority of numerous species within the family Cactaceae, of which he published his findings in the Monatsschrift für Kakteenkunde.
Quehl was a founding member of Deutsche Kakteen-Gesellschaft (DKG). Gymnocalycium quehlianum (F.Haage ex Quehl) Vaupel ex Hosseus).
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Who was Leopold Quehl?
German amateur botanist specialising in cacti (1849–1922)
When was Leopold Quehl born?
Leopold Quehl was born in 1849 in Halle.
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Leopold Quehl died in 1922.
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Leopold Quehl was a botanist.
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Leopold Quehl was German.
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