Ethelbert Blatter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swiss Jesuit priest and botanist in British India (1877–1934)
Date of Birth: 15-Dec-1877
Place of Birth: Rebstein, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Date of Death: 26-May-1934
Profession: botanist
Nationality: Switzerland
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Ethelbert Blatter
- Ethelbert Blatter SJ (15 December 1877 – 26 May 1934) was a Swiss Jesuit priest and pioneering botanist in British India.
- Author of five books and over sixty papers on the flora of the Indian subcontinent, he was Principal and Professor of Botany at St Xavier College, Bombay and Vice-President of the Bombay Natural History Society.
- In 1932, he became the first recipient of the Johannes Bruehl Memorial Medal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
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