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Authorised form of nameAgricola; George Andre (1672 - 1738); physician and botanist
Other forms of nameGeorge André
Georg Andreas
Georg Andreas Bauer
Dates1672 - 1738
NationalityGerman
Place of birthRegensburg, Bavaria, Germany, Europe
Date of birth1672
Place of deathRegensburg, Bavaria, Germany, Europe
Date of death1738
OccupationPhysician
Research fieldArboriculture
Anatomy
ActivityEducation:
Wittenberg; Halle
Career:
Practised in Regensburg; claimed to have found a way of making trees grow within hours from a 'mummy' of leaves and twigs; elected to the Royal Academy (1699).
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election11/01/1699
RelationshipsNephew of Georg Agricola, writer on mining and metallurgy
OtherInfoExperimented with plant cuttings and grafting and provided useful advice on vegetative propagation. Agricola also innovatively grafted various species of fruit trees onto one tree, resulting in a tree that bore different types of fruit.
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; Biog Univ; DBE; JBC vol 9 p94
CodeNA819
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
IM/000038Agricola, Georgius Andre1995
IM/000039Agricola, Georgius Andre1995
IM/000040Agricola, Georgius Andre1995
CLP/18ii/39Paper, Calculation of the velocity of the air moved by the newly-invented centrifugal bellows by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers1736
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