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Alexander von Schrenk

Baltic german naturalist (1816-1876).

Born February 4th, 1816 in Tula.

Died June 25th, 1876 at 60 years old in Tartu.

Occupations
botanical collector, botanist, explorer, geologist, mineralogist, naturalist, scientific collector

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel