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W. (Walter) Migula
1863–1938
A botanist and bacteriologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he wrote practical scientific works that helped shape how readers understood microbes and cryptogams. His name is still remembered in taxonomy, especially for early work connected with bacterial classification.
1 Audiobook
Die Tier- und Pflanzenwelt des Süsswassers. Erster Band.
by F. A. (François Alphonse) Forel, August Gruber, Friedrich Ludwig, W. (Walter) Migula, Ludwig Plate, Julius Vosseler, Wilhelm Weltner
About the author
Born in 1863 in Żyrowa, then in Prussia, Walter Migula became a German botanist whose work ranged across cryptogamic botany, lichenology, phycology, and bacteriology. He later died in Eisenach in 1938.
He was habilitated for botany in 1890 at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where he spent several years as a professor. Sources also note that he worked in the bacteriology department of the Food Research Institute at Karlsruhe, reflecting the practical, laboratory-based side of his scientific writing.
Migula published widely, including books on bacteriology and major works on the flora of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. He is especially remembered for contributions to bacterial taxonomy, including the proposal of the genus Pseudomonas, and for writing books meant to guide physicians, chemists, and students through practical bacteriology.