Citizenship Paraguay Children 4 Nationality German Name Karl Gustav | Academic advisors Adolf Engler Fields Botany, Zoology Author abbrev. (botany) | |
Born May 25, 1869
Hamburg ( 1869-05-25 ) Spouses Anna Gertz (1866-1920),
Ingeburg Fick Died October 25, 1951, San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina Alma mater Humboldt University of Berlin Residence Germany, Paraguay, Argentina | ||
Karl August Gustav Fiebrig-Gertz (25 May 1869, Hamburg – 25 October 1951, San Miguel de Tucumán) was a German-born Paraguayan botanist.
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Early life and education
He studied natural sciences in Berlin as a pupil of Adolf Engler,
Career
In 1902 travelled to South America in order to collect botanical and entomological specimens for European museums. In 1903–04 he collected in Bolivia, followed by collection duties in Paraguay from 1904 to 1909.
From 1910 to 1936 he was a professor of zoology and botany at Asunción University. In 1914 at Asunción, he became founder-director of the Botanical Garden and Zoo of Asunción, of which, several parts were co-designed along with his wife, Anna Gertz.
In 1934–36 he was director of the Paraguayan Department of Agriculture until leaving Paraguay following the Chaco War. He and his family returned to Germany, where he worked as a lecturer at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut in Berlin (1936–1945).
In 1948 he returned to South America, where he worked as a botanist at the Instituto Miguel Lillo in Tucumán, Argentina.
Honours and legacy
The plant genus Fiebrigiella (family Fabaceae) was named in his honor by Hermann Harms (1908).