Karl Moritz Schumann | |
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Born | |
Died | 22 March 1904 | (aged 52)
Nationality | German |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | curator of the Botanisches Museum |
Author abbrev. (botany) | K. Schum. |
Karl Moritz Schumann (17 June 1851 – 22 March 1904) was a German botanist.
Schumann was born in Görlitz. He was curator of the Botanisches Museum in Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894. He also served as the first chairman of the Deutsche Kakteen-Gesellschaft (German Cactus Society) which he founded on 6 November 1892. He died in Berlin.
Karl Moritz Schumann participated as a collaborator in Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien by Adolf Engler and K. A. E. Prantl and in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.
The genera Schumannianthus ( Gagnepain), Schumanniophyton ( Harms), Schumannia ( Kuntze) and several species were named after him, including: