Franz Firbas

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Franz Firbas (born 4 June 1902 in Prague; died 19 February 1964 in Göttingen) was a German botanist who taught at the University of Göttingen.{{cite journal |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00173139109427761 |author=Sunirmal Chanda |date=1991 |title=Presidential address: aerobiology — science in progress |journal=Grana |volume=30 |number=1 |pages=5–8 |doi=10.1080/00173139109427761 |bibcode=1991Grana..30....5C |accessdate=1 March 2024|url-access=subscription }} From 1952 to 1964, he was director of its Systematisch-Geobotanisches Institut.{{cite web |url=http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/71395.html |publisher=Georg-August-Universität Göttingen |title=Plant ecology and ecosystems research |accessdate=1 March 2024}} Former students include Otto Ludwig Lange,{{cite book |last=Schulze |first=Ernst-Detlef |chapter=In Memoriam: Otto Ludwig Lange (1927–2017) |pages=v–vii |title=Global Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms |year=2018 |editor1-last=Glibert |editor1-first=Patricia M. |editor-link1=Patricia Glibert|editor2-last=Burford |editor2-first=Michele A. |editor3-last=Zhou |editor3-first=Mingjiang |editor4-last=Berdalet |editor4-first=Elisa |editor5-last=Pitcher |editor5-first=Grant C. |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-319-70069-4}} Gerhard Lang and Heinz Ellenberg.