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Adolf Engler

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Adolf Engler , 1844-1930, German botanist. He emphasized the importance of geological history in the study of plant geography, and worked out an influential system of plant classification. A professor at the Univ. of Berlin and director of the botanical gardens (1889-1921) there, he founded and edited (from 1881) the periodical Botanische Jahrbücher. He wrote several works on plant geography and taxonomy, and collaborated with Karl Prantl on the early volumes of Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien (32 vol. in 17, 1887-1909) and edited the early volumes of Das Pflanzenreich. ... Read more
Engler, Heinrich Gustav Adolf
Engler, Heinrich Gustav Adolf (1844–1930) A German taxonomist and biogeographer who helped to develop a system for classifying plant families and genera. In 1910 he began a collaboration with C. G. O. Drude to produce Die Vegetation der Erde . Engler was professor at the museum and botanical gardens ... Read more
August Wilhelm Eichler
, 1839-87, German botanist. He worked out the symmetry of the parts of a flower and developed a system of plant classification which, after later work on it by Adolf Engler, was widely adopted by European botanists. He wrote a syllabus of pharmaceutical botany. Read more

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Kevorkian oil paintings go on display in Michigan. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
; ...likens Michigan Gov. John Engler to Adolf Hitler. ``Born Again'' plays...Michigan 1991.'' Inscribed are ``Engler Ueber Alles,'' ``Heil...Hitler,'' Kevorkian said. ``Engler was against abortion, so was Hitler. Engler's Catholic, so was Hitler... Read more
A Loose Cannon's Campaign.(attorney Geoffrey Fieger's campaign to be the Democratic nominee for Michigan's governor)(Brief Article)
; ...Michigan's Republican governor, John Engler, to Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein and...single day. He's suggested Engler's baby triplets have curly...anything like this, muses an Engler spokesman. He has contempt...duo. Fieger's contempt for Engler, an opponent in the Kevorkian... Read more
Schools mark Columbine warily
; ...talking about the Columbine anniversary and Adolf Hitler's birthday, Principal Ross Truemper...security," Truemper said. Superintendent Tom Engler said Yorkville schools would not take...for obvious signs of brewing violence. Engler also said officials have a crisis plan... Read more
Index nominum familiarum plantarum vascularium.(Part 1: Abstract-Index to Family Names (Abaminaceae-Cercidiphyllaceae))
; ...years later. Foremost were the works of Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler (1844-1930) and Karl Anton Eugen Prantl (1849-1893...differed significantly from the amentiferous views of Engler and Prantl. John Hutchinson (1884-1972) divided the angiosperms... Read more
Lessons in duty. (soldiers Don Burgett and Dean Rockwell applies survival tactics in their business)
; ...suburbs. More than 54 years have passed since the storming of Adolf Hitler's Festung Europa, or fortress Europe. Burgett, 73, is...8, 1945. Age has done in many more. When Michigan Gov. John Engler asked during a statewide Disabled American Veterans' 1994 convention... Read more

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