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Krause, Max Paul Fritz

 

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

 

Born: 1872, Berlin, Germany. Died: 1926, Bremen, Germany.

 

career:

Brother-in-law of R. Schlechter (see there). In 1892 he set out to Singapore, where he worked for some months in the German consulate; subsequently he went to Bindjei Estate (Deli, Sumatra East Coast), of which he finally became Head-Manager in 1912. In 1913 he returned to Germany, being appointed Director of a Tobacco Company.

Appendicula krauseana Schltr. was named after him.

 

collections:

Some Sumatra orchids.1 He probably sent the material to Schlechter, and it will have gone with the latter’s herbarium to Herb. Berl. [B].

 

literature:

(1) cf. Mém. Herb. Boiss. 21, 1900, p. 43 and 77; and Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 1900, nos 7-8.

 

biographical data:

Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936.