De Bary

De Bary, HEINRICH ANTON, an eminent botanist, born at Frankfort-on-Main, 26th January 1831. After a course of medical studies at Heidelberg, Marburg, and Berlin, he began in 1853 to practise in his native city, but next year became a privat-docent in Tübingen, the year after was called to be professor of Botany at Freiburg, where in 1859 he was appointed ordinary professor. In 1867 he obeyed a call to Halle, and in 1872 to Strasburg, where he was the first rector of the newly reorganised university. He died at Strasburg, 19th January 1888. As a botanist, De Bary is famous especially for the contributions he has made to our knowledge of the morphology and physiology of the fungi and the Myxomycetæ. Of his numerous works in these departments, the Comparative Anatomy of Phanerogams and Ferns has been translated (1885); as also the Morphology of Plants, and Lectures on Bacteria (1888).