Walter Carl Otto Busse
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Walter Carl Otto Busse | |
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| Born | 7 December 1868 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | 15 December 1933 (aged 65) Rome, Italy |
| Citizenship | German |
| Alma mater | University of Freiburg |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany |
| Institutions | International Institute of Agriculture Imperial Colonial Office |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Busse |
Walter Carl Otto Busse (1868 – 1933) was a German botanist, whose primary scholarly focus was on German agriculture and the plants, fungi and lichen of Africa.[1]
Busse was born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia on 7 December 1868. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg in 1892. His first posting was in the German Imperial Health Office (Kaiserliche Gesundheitsamt). He then went on to work in the Imperial Biological Institute (Biologische Reichsanstalt) in Dahlem. In 1900 he made a plant collecting expedition to Africa. He then travelled to the Bogor Botanical Gardens (then called the Botanical Gardens in Buitenzorg) in Java to make a study of Cinchona species which have medicinal value as a source of quinine. In 1903 he returned to Africa to make collections in Tanzania, Cameroon and Togo, before returning to Germany in 1905. Following the founding of the Imperial Colonial Office (German: Reichskolonialamt) he transferred to the Department for Agriculture and Forestry. His work on tobacco and alfalfa during this time was notable. In this position he travelled to Central Asia, the Caucasus, Crimea, Turkey and North America. In 1926 he was made Privy Councilor (German: Geheimrat) on agricultural matters for the Weimar Republic to the International Institute of Agriculture in Rome. He retired in 1919.[2][3][4]
