Oskar von Kirchner

Emil Otto Oskar von Kirchner (1851 to 1925) was a German botanist and agronomist, born in Breslau and dying in Venice. He studied botany at the University of Breslau, receiving his doctorate in 1873 with a dissertation on the botanical writings of Theophrastus, and afterwards worked as an assistant at the pomology institute of the agricultural academy in Proskau. From 1881 to 1917 he was a professor of botany at the Agricultural Academy in Hohenheim. His writings include Die Krankheiten und Beschädigungen unserer landwirtschaftlichen Kulturpflanzen, a guide for farmers and gardeners to recognising and fighting the diseases and damage of agricultural crops, published in 1890, and the Lebensgeschichte der Blütenpflanzen Mitteleuropas of 1904.