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We regret to announce that Dr. Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Professor of Botany in the University of Vienna, died suddenly on June 21 in that city from apoplexy. He was born at Mautern, Lower Austria; on November 13, 1831. He acquired at a very early age a considerable knowledge of the flora of his native province, and had already a good reputation as a botanist when still a student of medicine in the University of Vienna. After having taken his degree as Dr. Med. et Chir., he practised for a short time in one of the Vienna hospitals; but finding the medical career not to his taste, he accepted a professorship in the Josef's Polytechnicum at Ofen, Hungary. In 1861 he was called to the chair of Botany in the University of Innsbruck, which he occupied till 1878, when he succeeded Eduard Fenzl as Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanic Garden and Museum at Vienna, in which position he remained up to his death. In 1875 he was elected a member of the Imperial Academy of Science of Vienna; he received the order of the Eiserne Krone in the following year, in recognition of his achievements as a teacher and man of science, and was knighted in 1877, when he added the title “von Marilaun” to his name. When Eichler, the eminent morphologist, died, the University of Berlin invited him to the vacated chair; but Kerner, who had always been a staunch Austrian, declined.
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STAPF, O. A. Kerner Von Marilaun. Nature 58, 251–252 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058251a0
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