Ludwig Karl Eduard Schneider, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German botanist
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Place of Birth: Sudenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
About Ludwig Karl Eduard Schneider
- Ludwig Karl Eduard Schneider (26 June 1809 in Sudenburg – 9 February 1889 in Schönebeck) was a German politician and botanist, known for his studies of flora native to what is now called Saxony-Anhalt. He studied law and natural sciences at the University of Berlin, where one of his teachers was botanist Carl Sigismund Kunth.
- In 1844 he was elected mayor of Schönebeck, and from 1860, worked as a city councilor in Berlin.
- From 1861 to 1866 he was a member of the Deutsche Fortschrittspartei (German Progress Party) to the Prussian House of Representatives.
- In this position he was a decided opponent of Otto von Bismarck's policy.
- In 1870 he relocated to the town of Zerbst.In 1866, with Paul Friedrich August Ascherson and others, he founded a naturalist association known as the Aller-Vereins ("Aller Society").
- In Zerbst he served as chairman of Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins ("Society of Natural Sciences").
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