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Georg Wilhelm Schimper
German botanist (1804-1878) · Scientists · Died at 74
Georg Heinrich Wilhelm Schimper, in Amharic sources known as Sambar, was a German botanist and naturalist who spent more than forty years in Ethiopia collecting specimens of plants, mainly in Semien, the Tekeze area and around Adwa.
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Schimper discovered more new African plant species than possibly any other botanist, and numerous plant species bear the epithet Schimperi/Schimperiana.
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1804 to 1878 · aged 74
