Otto Porsch
Otto Porsch | |
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Born | |
Died | January 2, 1959 | (aged 83)
Nationality | Austrian |
Awards | Lieben Prize (1927) |
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.
References[]
- E. Schimitschek (1959). "Professor Dr. Otto Porsch". Journal of Pest Science. 32 (4): 61–62. doi:10.1007/BF02000523.
- "Otto Porsch".
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- Austrian biologists
- Scientists from Vienna
- 1875 births
- 1959 deaths
- 20th-century Austrian scientists
- Chernivtsi University faculty
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