Eduard August von Regel (sometimes Edward von Regel or Édouard von Regel, Russian: Эдуард Август Фон Регель; born Aug 13, 1815 in Gotha, died April 15, 1892 in St. Petersburg) was a German horticulturalist and botanist. He ended his career serving as the Director of the Russian Imperial Botanical Garden of St. Petersburg. As a result of naturalists and explorers sending back biological collections, Regel was able to describe and name many previou...
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Eduard August von Regel (sometimes Edward von Regel or Édouard von Regel, Russian: Эдуард Август Фон Регель; born Aug 13, 1815 in Gotha, died April 15, 1892 in St. Petersburg) was a German horticulturalist and botanist. He ended his career serving as the Director of the Russian Imperial Botanical Garden of St. Petersburg. As a result of naturalists and explorers sending back biological collections, Regel was able to describe and name many previously unknown species from frontiers around the world.
Regel earned degrees from the Gott Gymnasium in Germany and from the University of Bonn.
He began his career at the Royal Garden Limonaia in Gotha and then went as a volunteer to the botanical garden in Goettingen. He later worked at gardens in Bonn and Berlin. In 1842 he moved to Switzerland to become the head of the Botanical Garden Zürich. During this time he also worked as a Professor of science. In 1852 he founded the magazine "Gartenflora" (Garden Flora), in which he described many new...
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