Focke, Wilhelm Olbers, 1834-1922

LC control no.	no2018175308
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Focke, Wilhelm Olbers, 1834-1922 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Focke, W. O., 1834-1922 Focke, W. O. (Wilhelm Olbers), 1834-1922
Biography/History note	Wilhelm Olbers Focke (5 April 1834, Bremen - 29 September 1922, Bremen) was a medical doctor and botanist who in 1881 published a significant work on plant breeding entitled Die Pflanzen-Mischlinge, Ein Beitrag zur Biologie der Gewächse (The plant hybrids, a contribution to the biology of plants)[1] which briefly mentioned Gregor Mendel's discoveries on hybridization. Although Charles Darwin had a copy of Focke's book he passed it along to a colleague apparently without reading this particular section.[3] The rediscovery of Mendel's work is generally considered to have taken place in the first years of the 20th century, however in Die Pflanzen-Mischlinge, Mendel is mentioned about 18 times - although Focke did not apparently take Mendel's work all that seriously. Along with hybridization, Focke analyzed the non-Mendelian phenomena of graft hybrids, pseudogamy, and xenia. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Olbers_Focke>
Associated country	Germany
Birth date	1834-04-05
Death date	1922-09-29
Place of birth	Bremen (Germany)
Place of death	Bremen (Germany)
Profession or occupation	Botanists Physicians
Found in	Die Pflanzen-Mischlinge, 1881, via Hathi Trust, December 20, 2018: title page (Wilhelm Olbers Focke) <https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015045821843> Wikidata via Wikipedia, December 20, 2018 (botanist author abbreviation: Focke; VIAF identifier: 30292773; ISNI: 0000000110500146; GND identifier: 116634170; place of birth: Bremen; place of death: Bremen; country of citizenship: Germany; instance of: human; date of birth: +1834-04-05T00:00:00Z; date of death: +1922-09-29T00:00:00Z; Freebase identifier: /m/0406c8r; occupation: botanist; given name: Wilhelm; NTA identifier (Netherlands): 148462804; NUKAT authorities: n2009113261; National Library of Ireland authority ID (P1946): vtls000421020; child: Julius Focke; Open Library identifier: OL4524662A; IPNI author ID: 2798-1; sibling (P3373): Johann Focke; SNAC Ark ID (P3430): w6cw7555; field of work: botany; BHL creator ID (P4081): 12747; SUDOC authorities: 171970705; sex or gender: male; Harvard Index of Botanists ID (P6264): 39752; alias: Focke, Focke, W. O. Focke, Wilhelm Olbers Focke; description/label: botanic alemany, botánico alemán, botanicus, botanist german, botaniste allemand, deutscher Arzt und Botaniker, Duits botanicus , German botanist , tysk botaniker) <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q67774> OCLC database, Dec. 20, 2018 (access point: Focke, W. O., Focke, W. O. (Wilhelm Olbers); usage: W. O. Focke; W.O. Focke, M.D.)