Career

Collecting localities

Collections

Literature

Biographical data

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

Born: 1854, Greifswald, Germany. Died: 1899 (not 1900), Kiel, Germany.

career:

Was appointed Professor of Botany at Kiel in 1895. He travelled for a year in Java,¹ Japan, and W. America, on his return being ill. He was especially interested in flower biology.²

Collecting localities:³

W. Java: staying at the Foreigners’ Laboratory, Buitenzorg (Oct. 1898-March 1899), collecting in the Botanic Gardens; making trips to Bandoeng (Dec. 26, 1898), Tjibodas (Jan. 11-16, 1899); Islands in the Bay of Batavia, viz Agnieten Isls (Febr. 27) and P. Amsterdam (28).

collections:

Material in alcohol in the Show Mus. Berl.

literature:

(1) cf. Dammerman In Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, p. 23.

(2) Author of ‘Handbuch der Blütenbiologie’ (Leipzig 1898-99, 2 vols).

(3) Data derived from J.D. Alfken: ‘Die von P. Knuth auf seiner 1898/99 unternommene Reise nach Java, Japan and Kalifornien gesammelten Lepidopteren and Hymenopteren and die von diesen besuchten Pflanzen’ (Abh. Naturw. Ver. Bremen 18, 1905, p. 132-142).

biographical data:

Ber. D.B.G. 18, 1900, Gen. Vets. Heft p. (162)-(170), incl. bibliography.