1. Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler was a German botanist.
15 Facts About Adolf Engler
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Adolf Engler used various artists to illustrate his books, notably Joseph Pohl, an illustrator who had served an apprenticeship as a wood-engraver.
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Pohl's skill drew Adolf Engler's attention, starting a collaboration of some 40 years.
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Adolf Engler illustrated Das Pflanzenreich, Die Pflanzenwelt Afrikas, Monographien afrikanischer Pflanzenfamilien and the journals Engler's botanische Jahrbucher.
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Adolf Engler was born on March 25,1844, in Sagan, Silesia, now Zagan, in western Poland as Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler, and died in Berlin, Germany, on October 10,1930.
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Adolf Engler studied and obtained a PhD from the University of Breslau in 1866.
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Also in 1878, Adolf Engler was elected into Leopoldina, German Academy of Natural History.
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Adolf Engler went back to Breslau in 1884, as director of the Botanical Garden, succeeding Goeppert, and appointed professor of botany at the University of Breslau.
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From 1889 to 1921, Adolf Engler was a professor at University of Berlin, and director of the Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden, transforming it into one of the greatest botanical gardens of the world.
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Adolf Engler visited several regions of the world, enlarging the knowledge of floristic distribution, especially of Africa.
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Adolf Engler founded the journal Botanische Jahrbucher fur Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie, published in Leipzig, Germany, which has continued in publication from 1881 to the present.
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Adolf Engler was one of the pioneers in this field of science, highlighting the importance of factors such as geology on biodiversity, and defined biogeographical regions in 1879.
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Adolf Engler was elected an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1906.
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Adolf Engler was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1920.
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Adolf Engler is honoured with Engleromyces, and Englerodothis.