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See also:CHRISTIAN GOTTFRIED NEES VON ESENBECK (1776-1858)
, See also:German botanist and entomologist, was See also:born at See also:Erbach on the 14th of See also:February 1776, and was educated at See also:Darmstadt and at See also:Jena, where he took the degree of M.D
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After spending some See also:time in medical practice he was appointed See also:professor of See also:botany in See also:Erlangen in 1816
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Three years later he became professor of natural See also:history in See also:Bonn, and in 1831 he was appointed to the See also:chair of botany in the university of See also:Breslau
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In 1848 he entered See also:political See also:life and made himself so See also:obnoxious to the See also:government that in 1851 he was deprived of his professorship, and in consequence the latter years of his life were spent in See also:great poverty
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He died in Breslau on the 16th of See also:
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