Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper

German botanist (1856-1901).

Born May 12th, 1856 in Strasbourg.

Died September 9th, 1901 at 45 years old in Basel (malaria).

Occupations
botanist, ecologist, university teacher

It is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. Oliver Sacks