List of Famous people named Selmar

Here are some famous Selmars:

Selmar Schonland

First Name Selmar

Born on August 15, 1860

Died on April 22, 1940 (aged 79)

Born in Germany, Thuringia

Selmar Schonland, originally spelt Schönland, the founder of the Department of Botany at Rhodes University, was a German immigrant, who came to the Eastern part of the Cape Colony in 1889 to take up an appointment as curator of the Albany Museum. He came to Grahamstown via a doctorate at the University of Hamburg and a post at Oxford University. Working under Prof. Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour and Prof. Sydney Howard Vines, he developed an interest in the family Crassulaceae and contributed an account of this group to Engler & Prantl's Natürl. Pflanzenfamilien.

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Selmar Werner

First Name Selmar

Born on December 12, 1864

Died on August 19, 1953 (aged 88)

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