| Authorised form of name | Agricola; George Andre (1672 - 1738); physician and botanist |
| Other forms of name | George André |
| Georg Andreas |
| Georg Andreas Bauer |
| Dates | 1672 - 1738 |
| Nationality | German |
| Place of birth | Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany, Europe |
| Date of birth | 1672 |
| Place of death | Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany, Europe |
| Date of death | 1738 |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Research field | Arboriculture |
| Anatomy |
| Activity | Education:
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 category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 11/01/1699 |
| Relationships | Nephew of Georg Agricola, writer on mining and metallurgy |
| OtherInfo | Experimented 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. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; Biog Univ; DBE; JBC vol 9 p94 |
| Code | NA819 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| CLP/18ii/39 | Paper, Calculation of the velocity of the air moved by the newly-invented centrifugal bellows by J T [John Theophilus] Desaguliers | 1736 |