How to Pronounce Johann Franz Drège
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Mar 25, 1794 Died on 03 Feb 1881 (aged 86)
German botanist
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About Johann Franz Drège
- Johann Fran(t)z Drège (or Jean François Drège) (25 March 1794 Altona, Hamburg, Germany - 3 February 1881 Altona, Hamburg, Germany), commonly referred to by his standard botanical author abbreviation Drège, was a German horticulturalist, botanical collector and explorer of Huguenot descent. Drège received his first training in horticulture at Göttingen and subsequently worked at botanical gardens in Munich, Berlin, St.
- Petersburg and Riga. In 1826 he travelled with his younger brother, Eduard, to join his older brother, Carl, who had been working as an apothecary in the Cape since 1821.
- They established themselves as professional natural history collectors - Carl concentrating on zoological and Franz on botanical specimens.
- Their contract with their European contacts expired in 1826 and they decided to launch their own business.
