Friedrich Carl Louis Otto Appel, born May 19, 1867, and died November 10, 1952, was a German botanist and agriculturalist who became a leading authority on potato diseases. He developed a successful seed potato inspection program in Germany and directed the Biological Reich Institute for Agriculture and Forestry in Berlin-Dahlem from 1920 to 1933, after joining its predecessor organization at the Imperial Health Office in Berlin in 1899.
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Friedrich Carl Louis Otto Appel (19 May 1867 - 10 November 1952)
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Friedrich Carl Louis Otto Appel (19 May 1867 - 10 November 1952)
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was a German botanist and agriculturalist
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Appel was a leading authority on potato diseases.
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Following work as an assistant at the Universities of Würzburg and Königsberg, he joined the newly established biological division of agriculture and forestry at the Imperial Health Office in Berlin (1899), from which the Biologische Bundesanstalt für Land- und Forstwirtschaft (Biological Reich Institute for Agriculture and Forestry) in Berlin-Dahlem later emerged.
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