George Karsten

George Karsten (3 November 1863 – 7 May 1937) was a German

With Heinrich Schenck (1860–1927), he was editor of a popular journal of botany called Vegetationsbilder.^[1] Karsten is remembered for his studies of phytoplankton, and among his written works are publications on phytoplankton collected from the deep-sea Valdivia Expedition of 1898–99:

• Lehrbuch der Pharmakognosie des Pflanzenreiches für Hochschulen und zum Selbstunterricht mit Rücksicht auf das neue deutsche Arzneibuch (1903) Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• Das Phytoplankton des Antarktischen Meeres nach dem Material der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition 1898-1899 (Phytoplankton of the
  Antarctic Seas
  from the German Deep-sea Valdivia Expedition); (1905).
• Das Phytoplankton des Atlantischen Ozeans nach dem Material der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition 1898-1899 (Phytoplankton of the Atlantic Ocean from the German Deep-sea Valdivia Expedition); (1906).
• Das Indische Phytoplankton nach dem Material der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition 1898-1899 (Phytoplankton of the Indian Ocean from the German Deep-sea Valdivia Expedition); (1907).

References

• Catalogus-professorum-halensis (translated biography of George Karsten)
• Koeltz Scientific Books^{[permanent dead link]} (publications)

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