Ethelbert Blatter
Swiss botanist
Born on: December 15, 1877Died on: May 26, 1934
Aged: 56 years 162 days (677 months)
Birth Sign: Sagittarius
Ethelbert Blatter was a Swiss Jesuit priest and pioneering botanist in British India. Author of five books and over sixty papers on the flora of the Indian subcontinent, he was Principal and Professor of Botany at St Xavier College, Bombay and vice-president of the Bombay Natural History Society.
In 1932 he became the first recipient of the Johannes Bruehl Memorial Medal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.
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