Hans Hermann Behr [SEP] place of birth
Hans Hermann Behr
Hans Hermann Behr (August 18, 1818, Köthen – March 6, 1904, San Francisco) was a German-American doctor, entomologist and botanist. At the time of his death, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that he was "reckoned among mental giants" and that he was "an authority of world-wide prominence" in many branches of science.
Early life.
Behr came from a prominent family with connections to the administration of the principality of Köthen (also Koethen, Goethen
from Spencer's Gulf in 1802 by Robert Brown. It was first described as "Loranthus exocarpi" by Hans Hermann Behr in 1847 after his first visit to Australia 1844-45. Behr was the first botanist to systematically collect and study the flora of the Barossa Range, mallee scrubs towards the River Marne and areas adjacent to the River Murray at Moorundie. Dietrich von Schlechtendahl treated 200 plants collected by Behr, of which he described 62 as being new species: a further five, including "Loranthus exocarpi" were described by