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Paul Friedrich August Ascherson
German botanist (1834-1913)
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1834
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1913
country of citizenship: Kingdom of Prussia
native language: German
languages spoken, written or signed: German
educated at: Frederick William University, Humboldt University of Berlin
occupation: anthropologist, botanist, university teacher, entomologist, geographer
position held: professor

Paul Friedrich August Ascherson (June 4, 1834 – March 6, 1913) was a German botanist. His author citation is Asch., although Aschers. has been used in the past.
Ascherson was born in Berlin in 1834 as the son of health counsellor. In 1850, he started studying medicine at the University of Berlin, but soon started getting more interested in botany. In 1855, he received his doctorate for a dissertation about the flora of the Margraviate of Brandenburg. In the 1850s, he started to botanize in Saxony, including several excursions with Ludwig Schneider and Gustav Maass. In 1860, Ascherson became an assistant at the Botanical Garden in Berlin; in 1865 he also started working at the Royal Herbarium. In 1863, he obtained his habilitation for specific botany and plant geography. In 1873, Ascherson became associate professor at the University of Berlin. He accompanied Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs on his 1873/74 expedition in the Libyan desert. After 1876, he went on further expeditions in Africa, publishing fundamental works about the flora of the continent. In the 1890s he botanized in Jerichower Land and in the Vorharz along with Paul Graebner.
Ascherson is known for combining works about the flora in certain localities with his own observations to write descriptions of the flora of a larger territory. He was also an entomologist. Insect collections made by him in Africa are conserved in Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin.In 1848 botanist Mont. published Aschersonia>, which is a genus of fungi in the order Hypocreales and family Clavicipitaceae. and named in Ascherson's honour.
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4Synopsis der Mitteleuropäischen Flora
Leipzig,W. Engelmann,1896/98- | New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
wd:Q11690731author: Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, Paul Graebner
1896
Botanik von Ost-Afrika
libro sobre botánica
wd:Q15314109author: Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, Johann Otto Boeckeler, Friedrich Wilhelm Klatt, Friedrich Adalbert Maximilian Kuhn, Paul Günther Lorentz, Otto Wilhelm Sonder
Flora des nordostdeutschen Flachlandes
Second edition of the Flora der Provinz Brandenburg
wd:Q51474865author: Paul Friedrich August Ascherson, Paul Graebner
1899
Flora der Provinz Brandenburg
book by Paul Friedrich August Ascherson
wd:Q2894427author: Paul Friedrich August Ascherson