Sachs, JULIUS

Sachs, JULIUS, botanist, born at Breslau 2d October 1832, studied at Prague and began to teach botany there. After lecturing at the agricultural colleges of Tharandt in Saxony and Poppelsdorf near Bonn from 1859 to 1867, he was in the last year appointed professor of Botany at Freiburg, but removed to Würzburg in the following year. There he carried on, in a laboratory built under his own direction, important experiments in plant physiology, especially in determining the influence of light and heat upon plants, and in investigating the movements and other organic activities of vegetable growth. He died 29th May 1897. His works include Lehrbuch der Botanik (4th ed. 1874; Eng. trans. 1875), Handbuch der Experimentalphysiologie der Pflanzen (1866), Geschichte der Botanik vom 16 Jahrhundert bis 1860 (1875; Eng. trans. 1890), Grundzüge der Pflanzenphysiologie (1873), and Vorlesungen über Pflanzenphysiologie (Eng. trans. 1887).