Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger

German botanist

Date of Birth: 03-Jul-1876

Place of Birth: Heligoland, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Date of Death: 09-Jan-1953

Profession: botanist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Robert Knud Friedrich Pilger (3 July 1876, in Helgoland – 1 September 1953, in Berlin) was a German botanist, who specialised in the study of conifers. He collected plants in the Mato Grosso of Brazil, and from 1945 to 1950 was director of the botanical garden at Berlin-Dahlem.The genera Pilgerodendron Florin (Cupressaceae) and Pilgerochloa Eig (Poaceae) are named in his honour. Selected bibliographyPilger, R.
(1926).
Phylogenie und Systematik der Coniferae.
In: Engler, A., & Prantl, K.
A.
E.
(eds.).
Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien XIII.
Leipzig. Pilger, R.
(1926).
Pinaceae.
In: Urban, I.
(ed.).
Plantae Haitienses III.
Ark.
Bot.
20 (4): A15: 9-10. Pilger, R.
(1931).
Die Gattung Juniperus L.
Mitt.
Deutsch.
Dendrol.
Ges.
43: 255-269.