Schumann, Karl Moritz (1851-1904)

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Karl Moritz Schumann (* 17 June 1851 in Görlitz; † 22 March 1904 in Berlin) was a German botanist.

Dr. Schumann was the curator of the Botanisches Museum in Berlin-Dahlem from 1880 until 1894. He also served as the first chairman of the Deutsche Kakteen-Gesellschaft (German Cactus Society) which he founded November 6, 1892.

Karl Moritz Schumann participated as a collaborator in Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien by Adolf Engler and K. A. E. Prantl and in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.

TAXONOMIC PUBLICATIONS

 * Schumann, K. 1888. Einige neue Ameisenpflanzen. Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 19: 357-421