Frederick Traugott Pursh
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Frederick Traugott Pursh
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Frederick Traugott Pursh was a German–American botanist. Born in Großenhain, in the Electorate of Saxony, under the name Friedrich Traugott Pursh, he was educated at Dresden Botanical Gardens, and emigrated to the United States in 1799. From 1802 to 1805, he worked in Philadelphia as the botanical manager of the extensive gardens of William Hamilton, Esq., "The Woodlands." By 1805, he was working for Benjamin Smith Barton on a new flora of North America, under whom he studied the plants collecte
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German-American botanist (1774–1820)
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2023-08-25T19:41:43Z
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