Ernst Hugo Heinrich Pfitzer (1846 - 1906) was a German botanist. In the year 1872 Pfitzer became professor of botany and director of the botanical garden in Heidelberg (Germany) and started to invent a new Orchidaceae system. His new orchid system observed vegetative as well as floral characteristics of the orchids and …

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Charles Samuel Pollock Parish (1822 - 1897) wasn´t a botanist, but invaluable for the orchidologists of that time John Lindley and Joseph Dalton Hooker. Charles Samuel Pollock Parish was born in Calcutta, India at the 26.02.1822, He was educated at Oxford University,where he graduated in 1841 and took the Bachelor of Arts. 1852 he was Read More »

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Karl Ludwig Blume (1796-1862), also called Charles Ludwig de Blume and Karel Lodewijk Blume, was a German-Dutch botanist. Karl Ludwig Blume was born at 09.06.1796 in Braunschweig, Germany. In 1818 he was sent by his teacher and mentor Sebald Justinus Brugmans as a naturalist to Jakarta, Indonesia, what was that time named Batavia. …

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William Griffith (1810–1845), a british botanist and doctor was educated in medical profession and was apprenticed to a surgeon in London. In 1829 he started to study at the University of London as a student of the famous Sir John Lindley. There William Griffith got to know Nathaniel Wallich, a famous danish botanist. In 1832 Read More »

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