Friedrich August Körnicke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German botanist
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Place of Birth: Pratau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
About Friedrich August Körnicke
- Friedrich August Körnicke (29 January 1828 – 16 January 1908) was a German agronomist and botanist born in Pratau (now a part of Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt).
- He was the father of agricultural botanist Max Koernicke (1874–1955). Körnicke studied sciences at Humboldt University of Berlin, where in 1856 he earned his doctorate.
- As a student he participated in numerous botanical field trips, and at the university was influenced by distinguished botanists that included Alexander Braun (1805–1877) and Johannes von Hanstein (1822–1880).
- After graduation, he worked as curator of the herbarium at the botanical gardens in St.
- Petersburg. From 1858 to 1867 he taught classes at the Landwirtschaftlichen Akademie Waldau (Waldau Agricultural Academy) near Königsberg.
- Afterwards he was successor to Julius Sachs (1832–1897) as professor of botany at the Agricultural Academy of Poppelsdorf in Bonn, a position he maintained until 1898. Körnicke was a leading authority on cereal grains, especially wheat.
- At Bonn he conducted important investigations of agricultural crops, and performed systematic research involving improved varieties of grain.
- With agricultural scientist Hugo Werner (1839–1912), he published a landmark textbook on grain cultivation called "Handbuch des Getreidebaues". In addition to his work in agricultural science, he performed significant studies of flora found in the Rhineland.
- Also, he was the taxonomic authority of many taxa within the botanical families Eriocaulaceae and Marantaceae.
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