How to Pronounce Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten
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Nov 06, 1817 Stralsund, Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Germany Died on 10 Jul 1908 (aged 90)
German botanist
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About Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten
- Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (6 November 1817, in Stralsund – 10 July 1908, in Zoppot) was a German botanist and geologist.
- Born in Stralsund, he followed the example of Alexander von Humboldt and traveled 1844-56 the northern part of South America (Venezuela, Ecuador and Colombia).
- From 1856 to 1868, he was a professor at the agricultural college in Berlin, afterwards serving as a professor of plant physiology at the University of Vienna (1868–72).
- In 1881, at the suggestion of David Friedrich Weinland, Karsten became convinced of the correctness of Otto Hahn's organic theory of the chondrites and, as a result, wrote an essay entitled "Die Meteorite und ihre Organismen" in which he declared his support for Hahn's theory.
- He died 1908 in Berlin-Grunewald. As a taxonomist, he was the binomial author of many botanical species.
