Otto Porsch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Otto Porsch

Austrian biologist

Date of Birth: 12-Sep-1875

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 02-Jan-1959

Profession: biologist, botanist

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Otto Porsch 12 September 1875 – 2 January 1959) was an Austrian biologist.
After his Ph.D he worked with Gottlieb Haberlandt in Graz and did his habilitation with Richard Wettstein in Vienna.
He became first director of the botanical garden in Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine) and later professor at the University of Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi University).
Porsch became director of the botanical institute in Vienna in 1920.
He retired in 1945 and died in 1959.