Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Pappe

Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Pappe
Born1803
Hamburg, Germany
Died1862 (aged 58–59)
Cape Colony
CitizenshipGerman
Alma materUniversity of Leipzig
SpouseMaria Bam Mastaer (or Mestaer) (m.1839)
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine
Botany
InstitutionsSouth African College
Thesis Enumerationes plantarum phaenogamarum lipsiensium specimen  (1827)

Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Pappe (1803 in Hamburg – 14 October 1862) was a German-born physician and botanist who lived and worked in Cape Colony.[1] He was the first person to hold the position of government botanist and the first professor of botany at the South African College. His herbarium became the oldest surviving botanical collection in South Africa.[2]

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