BRIEFER ARTICLES 



EDUARD STRASBURGER 1 



(Born February i, 1844; died May 19, 191 2) 



(with two portraits) 



In the death of Strasburger, professor of botany in the University 

 of Bonn, science has lost one of its greatest investigators. His publica- 

 tions, extending over nearly half a century, naturally give the impression 



that he was a very old man, but 

 such was not the case, for he 

 was only in his sixty-ninth year, 

 and was still actively engaged 

 in research and teaching, when 

 the end came suddenly through 

 1 an attack of heart disease. 

 I Strasburger was a native 



I of Russian Poland, and began 



his education at Warsaw, study- 



| ing later at Bonn and at Jena. 



r He traveled extensively in 



' Europe, and in 1873, with 

 Haeckel, he visited Egypt and 

 the Red Sea, but most of his 

 vacations were spent in Italy, 

 on the Riviera. His wife died 

 several years ago, but his chil- 



dren 



survive 



him. 



He was 



devoted to his family, was proud of his children, and during the long 

 period while Mrs. Strasburger was an invalid, he always found time 

 to accompany her in her daily walk through the beautiful gardens of the 

 old Poppelsdorfer Schloss, once the palace of the Electors of Cologne, 

 but now serving as the botanical laboratory and home of the professor of 

 botany. With others also he was kindly and easy to approach, so that 



x An account of Stras burger's laboratory and work, written by Professor 

 J. E. Humphrey, was published in this journal eighteen years ago (Bot. Gaz. 19"- 

 401-405, with portrait. 1894). 



Botanical Gazette, vol. 54] 68 



