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BARON FERDINAND VON MULLER (1825–1896)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 961 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARON FERDINAND VON MULLER (1825–1896)  , German botanist and explorer, was born at
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Rostock on the 3oth of
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June 1825, and was educated, after the early
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death of his parents, in Schleswig . He studied the
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flora of Schleswig and 'Holstein from 1840 to 1847, when he emigrated to South
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Australia and travelled through the colony from 1848 to 1852, discovering and describing a large number of
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plants previously unknown . In 1852 he was appointed government botanist for Victoria, and examined its flora, and especially the Alpine vegetation of Australia, which was previously unknown .

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