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Max Burret

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thesis, and quickly became one of Germany's most prominent botanists. Burret participated in many botanical science organizations in Germany, taking up leadership positions, such as assistant at the Berlin Botanical Museum and Garden from 1909 to 1911, as well as botanical assistant and lecturer at
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in 1938 and 1939. Burret was among the first botanists to conduct ground-breaking research on palms, beginning in Africa and later in South America and Indomalaysia. He identified, named and classified dozens of palm species, including
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the Botanical Institute of the Agricultural College in Berlin in 1911 through 1921. In 1922 he was appointed custodian of the Botanical Museum and Garden in Berlin, and later appointed to professor of botanical
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Burret made numerous travels in Europe and Africa, as well as South America. He was invited by the
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government to make a trip to that country, specifically for the study of the various species of
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Burret is the author of numerous systematic papers on the floral families
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to the region. Shortly after his return to Germany, he voyaged to the
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than in law, and he eventually abandoned his law studies to conduct
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at the instigation of his father. Burret had a greater interest in
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Index

Author abbrev. (botany)
botanist
Saffig
Andernach
Prussian
Rhine Province
Lausanne
Munich
natural science
botanical
Ph.D.
taxonomic
biology
Berlin University
Brazilian
palm
indigenous
Old World
tropics
Sri Lanka
Malay Peninsula
Java
Sumatra
Rhapis multifida
Livistona beccariana
flora
Maxburretia
Burretiokentia
Tiliaceae
Palmae

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