| LC control no. | n 91025868 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Geyer, Karl Andreas, 1809-1853 |
| Variant(s) | Geyer, Carl Andreas, 1809-1853 Geyer, Charles, 1809-1853 Geyer, Chas. Andrew, 1809-1853 |
| Birth date | 1809-11-30 |
| Death date | 1853-11-21 |
| Profession or occupation | Botanists |
| Found in | NUCMC data from Smithsonian Institution Archives for His Journal, 1838 (Carl Andreas Geyer, 1809-1853; botanist, accompanied J.N. Nicollet expedition to survey the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers) LC man. auth. cd. (hdg.: Geyer, Karl Andreas, 1809-1853) NUCMC file (Geyer, Charles, 1809-1853; b. Karl Andreas Geyer) Meissen, (Kingdom of Saxony,) Nov'br 20th, 1848. To Fred'k A. Mayo, Esq'r, Richmond, Va, 1848: page 3 (Chas. Andrew Geyer, Meissen Neumarkt, 647; I was ... exploring last the Upper Missouri and Mississippi territory. I stayed eleven years in North America, travelled much, visited the far west) Wikipedia, viewed September 17, 2019 (Karl (Charles) Andreas Geyer; 30 November 1809- 21 November 1853; German botanist who was a native of Dresden; from 1835 to 1844 he performed botanical studies on several expeditions within the United States, including the Upper Midwest for geographer Joseph Nicollet (1838-40), Illinois, Missouri and the Iowa Territory for botanist George Engelmann (1841-42), present-day states of Nebraska and Wyoming with explorer William Drummond Stewart, and what would later be known as the Oregon Territory (1843-44); in 1845 he returned to Germany, where he purchased land in Meissen and started a nursery. During his later years, he was an editor of the horticultural journal Die Cronik des Gartenwesens) |
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