About Otto Porsch
Lived 1875 – 1959 (aged 83). Otto Porsch was an Austrian botanist.
Otto Porsch (12 September 1875 – 2 January 1959) was an Austrian biologist.
After his Ph.D he worked with Gottlieb Haberlandt in Graz and did his habilitation with Richard Wettstein in Vienna. He became first director of the botanical garden in Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine) and later professor at the University of Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi University). Porsch became director of the botanical institute in Vienna in 1920. He retired in 1945 and died in 1959.
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Who was Otto Porsch?
Austrian botanist and biologist (1875-1959)
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Otto Porsch was born on 12 September 1875 in Vienna.
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Otto Porsch died on 2 January 1959 in Vienna.
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Otto Porsch was a botanist.
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Otto Porsch was Austrian.
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