Mein Leben mit Alwin Berger = My life with Alwin Berger, Elise Berger

The farmer's son Alwin Berger (1871-1931) is said to have been prophesied when he was a child that he is going to be a gardener, he is too fond of flowers. Childish inclination turned into purposeful interest. Years of apprenticeship and traveling in botanical gardens between Dresden and Frankfurt, Freiburg and Greifswald were followed by appointments to the Hanbury-Garten La Mortola, royal services to Wilhelma in Stuttgart, to the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva and finally to the Württemberg Natural History Cabinet . But what a multi-faceted picture emerges when his wife describes, full of anecdotes, how the passionate gardener rose from apprentice to a highly respected botanist. Tucked away as a family property for decades, your memories now give an insight into an astonishing career and also show Berger as a genius in friendly and collegial relationship management, whose abundant working life not least testify to well over 700 first-described plant species and around 300 publications.

 

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