Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Kehr, Gustav Herman

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Kehr, Gustav Herman

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Edition of 1892. This is a fictitious person. The earliest work on sex in plants was published in 1694, and the earliest work on the flora of Peru was published in 1714, while the titles of the alleged literary works include the phrase Aphorismi botanici, which was probably first used in 1817, and the word "cryptogamae", a much later form of the word "cryptogamia" that was first coined by Linnaeus in 1737: all of this is many years after the date of the subject's death. Two of the titles of the alleged literary works, "Grundlehren der Anatomie und Physiologie der Pflanzen" and "Criptogamae Brasilienses", also appear in the fictitious entry of Friedrich Wilhelm Nasher, who was also supposedly German.

615378Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography — Kehr, Gustav Herman

KEHR, Gustav Herman (kair). German botanist, b. in Freysingen in 1581; d. in Magdeburg in 1639. He was professor in the universities of Tübingen and Halle, and afterward librarian of the Prince of Lippe-Detmold, who sent him in 1621 to America to study the plants of that country. Kehr went first to New Spain, and after several years crossed the Isthmus of Panama, and, sailing for Patagonia, studied the plants of the country that is now the Argentine Republic from 1624 till 1629, visiting afterward Chili, Brazil, and Peru. On his return he published, among other works, “De Sexu plantarum” (Magdeburg, 1631); “Aphorismi botanicae” (Tübingen, 1633); “Historia generalis plantarum Americanarum” (3 vols., Halle, 1635); “Grundlehren der Anatomie und Physiologie der Pflanzen von Amerika” (Magdeburg, 1636); “Sertum Patagonicum et florula peruviensis” (2 vols., Dresden, 1636); “Criptogamæ Brasilienses ab Gustavius Kehr collectæ” (Magdeburg, 1632); and “Reisen in Amerika” (2 vols., 1639).