Curt Backeberg

German botanist (1894-1966).

Born August 2nd, 1894 in Lüneburg.

Died January 14th, 1966 at 71 years old in Hamburg.

Occupations
botanical collector, botanist, writer
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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