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elected Sachs rector of the University of Würzburg in 1871, and the local government bestowed an order of nobility upon Sachs, per-mitting the addition of “von” before his family name. Julius von Sachs was an introverted, shy person who disregarded religion and political-philosophical speculations without factual basis.
Julius von Sachs. Julius von Sachs ( German: [zaks]; 2 October 1832 – 29 May 1897) was a German botanist from Breslau, Prussian Silesia. He is considered the founder of experimental plant physiology and co-founder of modern water culture. Julius von Sachs and Wilhelm Knop are monumental figures in the history of botany by first demonstrating ...
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Apr 5, 2024 · Julius von Sachs (born Oct. 2, 1832, Breslau, Ger. [now Wrocław, Pol.]—died May 29, 1897, Würzburg, Ger.) was a German botanist whose experimental study of nutrition, tropism, and transpiration of water greatly advanced the knowledge of plant physiology, and the cause of experimental biology in general, during the second half of the 19th ...
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SACHS, JULIUS (1832–1897), German botanist. Born in Breslau of a poor family, he was encouraged in his studies by the Czech physiologist Johannes Evangelista Purkinje (1787–1869), then at the University of Breslau. When Sachs was 18, Purkinje moved to Prague, and he invited Sachs to come to his institute as an assistant.
Abstract. The year 2018 marks the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Julius von Sachs' (1832-1897) Lehrbuch der Botanik (Textbook of Botany), which provided a comprehensive summary of what was then known about the plant sciences. Three years earlier, in 1865, Sachs produced the equally impressive Handbuch der Experimental-Physiologie ...
May 17, 2018 · The goal of this Special Invited Paper is to review the many important contributions to plant biology made by Julius von Sachs (1832–1897), who quite rightly can be called “the father of plant physiology” (Fig. 1). Although he contributed to virtually every branch of botany, Sachs will always be associated with the development of plant ...
Jun 11, 2018 · SACHS, JULIUS VON. ( b. Breslau, Silesia [now Wroclaw, Germany, 2 October 1832; d. Würzburg, Germany, 29 May 1897) botany, plant physiology. Sachs was the eighth of nine children of Christian Gottlieb Sachs, an engraver, and the former Maria-Theresia Hofbauer, who were quite poor. From 1840 to 1845 the gifted boy attended the poorly run ...
