Friedrich Alexander Buhse, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Friedrich Alexander Buhse

German botanist

Date of Birth: 30-Nov-1821

Place of Birth: Riga, Latvia

Date of Death: 29-Dec-1898

Profession: botanist

Nationality: German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Friedrich Alexander Buhse (30 November 1821, Riga – 29 December 1898) was a Baltic-German botanist. From 1840 he studied botany at the universities of Dorpat, Berlin and Heidelberg, receiving his PhD in 1843.
In 1847-49, with Pierre Edmond Boissier, he collected plants in Transcaucasia and Persia.
In 1852 he became a correspondent member of the Société linnéenne de Lyon.With Boissier he circumscribed many species of plants.
The botanical genus Buhsia (family Capparaceae) was named in his honor by Alexander Bunge.