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 |