Ludwig Diels

Ludwig Diels's tombstone at botanical garden in Berlin-Dahlem

Friedrich Ludwig Emil Diels (24 September 1874 – 30 November 1945) was a German botanist.

Diels was born in Hamburg, the son of the classical scholar Hermann Alexander Diels. From 1900 to 1902 he traveled together with Ernst Georg Pritzel through South Africa, Java, Australia and New Zealand.[1][2]

  1. ^ J.S. Beard in -Beard, J. S. (John Stanley) (1990), Plant life of Western Australia, Kangaroo Press, ISBN 978-0-86417-279-2 – page 9 – emphasises the book – Diels, Ludwig (1906), Die pflanzenwelt von West-Australien südlich des wendekreises : mit einer einleitung über die pflanzenwelt Gesamt-Australiens in grundzügen, Verlag Von Wilhelm Engelmann, retrieved 20 June 2012 was the first of its kind for Western Australia
  2. ^ "MUELLER BOTANIC SOCIETY". The West Australian. Perth: National Library of Australia. 22 July 1902. p. 3. Retrieved 20 June 2012.