Otto Warburg (botanist)
Otto Warburg , was a German botanist. He was also a notable industrial agriculture expert, as well as an active member of the Zionist Organization . From 191121, he served as the president of the ZO, which among other things, sought for the Jewish people a publicly and legally assured home in Palestine.
Otto Warburg was born in Hamburg onJuly 1859 to a family whose ancestors came to Germany in 1566, possibly from Bologna. He completed his studies at the Johanneum Gymnasium in Hamburg in 1879, and continued his education in the field of botany at the University of Bonn which he left after one semester to move to the University of Berlin, and later to University of Strasbourg, where he received his Ph.D in 1883. He went on to study chemistry in Munich and physiology in Tbingen with Wilhelm Pfeffer. In 1885 he embarked on a 4year expedition to Southern and Southeastern Asia, ending in Australia in 1889.
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