Which famous people have you outlived?

Ethelbert Blatter

Swiss botanist

Died when: 56 years 162 days (677 months)
Star Sign: Sagittarius

 

Ethelbert Blatter

Ethelbert Blatter SJ (15 December 1877 – 26 May 1934) 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.


Related People

Emil Hassler
Swiss botanist
Eduard Fischer
Swiss botanist
Hans Schinz
Swiss botanist
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License