# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pieter-willem-korthals
# Generated: 2026-08-15T18:04:46.760Z

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name: "Pieter Willem Korthals"
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description: "Pieter Willem Korthals was a Dutch botanist. Korthals was the official botanist with the Dutch East India Service from 1831 to 1836. \nAmong his many discoveries was the medicinal plant Kratom . Korthals wrote the first monograph on the tropical pitcher plants, \"Over het geslacht Nepenthes\", published in 1839."
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deathDate: "1892-02-08"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump