Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger
German botanist
About Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger
Lived 1876 – 1953 (aged 76). Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger was a German botanist, botanical collector and scientific collector.
Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger (3 July 1876, Helgoland – 1 September 1953, Berlin) was a German botanist, who specialised in the study of conifers.
He collected plants in the Mato Grosso of Brazil, and from 1945 to 1950 was director of the botanical garden at Berlin-Dahlem.
The genera; Pilgerodendron Florin (Cupressaceae), Pilgerina (family Santalaceae), and Pilgerochloa Eig (Poaceae) are all named in his honour.
Selected bibliography Pilger, R. (1926). Phylogenie und Systematik der Coniferae. In: Engler, A., & Prantl, K. A. E. (eds.). Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien XIII. Leipzig. Pilger, R. (1926). Pinaceae. In: Urban, I. (ed.). Plantae Haitienses III. Ark. Bot. 20 (4): A15: 9–10. Pilger, R. (1931). Die Gattung Juniperus L. Mitt. Deutsch. Dendrol. Ges. 43: 255–269.
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German botanist (1876-1953)
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Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger was born on 3 July 1876 in Heligoland.
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Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger died on 9 January 1953 in Berlin.
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Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger was a botanist, botanical collector and scientific collector.
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Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger was German.
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