# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-olbers-focke
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:08:15.127Z

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name: "Wilhelm Olbers Focke"
slug: "wilhelm-olbers-focke"
description: "Wilhelm Olbers Focke was a medical doctor and botanist who in 1881 published a significant work on plant breeding entitled Die Pflanzen-Mischlinge, Ein Beitrag zur Biologie der Gewächse which briefly mentioned Gregor Mendel's discoveries on hybridization. Although Charles Darwin had a copy of Focke's book he passed it along to a colleague apparently without reading this particular section. The rediscovery of Mendel's work is generally considered to have taken place in the first years of the 20th century, however in Die Pflanzen-Mischlinge, Mendel is mentioned about 18 times - although Focke did not apparently take Mendel's work all that seriously. Along with hybridization, Focke analyzed the non-Mendelian phenomena of graft hybrids, pseudogamy, and xenia."
tagline: "German physician and botanist (1834–1922)"
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birthDate: "1834-04-05"
deathDate: "1922-09-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump