August Gremli was a Swiss physician and botanist born in Kreuzlingen

Kreuzlingen

Kreuzlingen is a municipality in the district of Kreuzlingen in the canton of Thurgau in north-eastern Switzerland. It is the seat of the district and is the second largest city of the canton, after Frauenfeld, with a population of over 18,000...

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He studied medicine in Berlin

Berlin

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 and Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

, and afterwards attended an apprenticeship as a pharmacist

Pharmacist

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 in Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe

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. From 1876 he worked as a curator

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 in the herbarium

Herbarium

In botany, a herbarium – sometimes known by the Anglicized term herbar – is a collection of preserved plant specimens. These specimens may be whole plants or plant parts: these will usually be in a dried form, mounted on a sheet, but depending upon the material may also be kept in...

 of botanist Émile Burnat

Émile Burnat

Émile Burnat was a Swiss botanist.He began herborizing while still in his teens, and later worked at the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques in Geneva. He is remembered for his studies of flora found in the Maritime Alps...

 (1828-1920) in Nant near Vevey

Vevey

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. He died in Kreuzlingen on March 30, 1899. Gremli published several works on Swiss flora, including the 1867 Excursionsflora für die Schweiz, which was later translated into English. In addition he collaborated with Burnat on a number of essays on flora from the

Flora of the Alps

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 Maritime Alps

Maritime Alps

The Maritime Alps are a mountain range in the southwestern part of the Alps. They form the border between the French département Alpes-Maritimes and the Italian province of Cuneo. The Col de Tende separates them from the Ligurian Alps; the Maddalena Pass separates them from the Cottian Alps...

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Selected publications

• Excursionsflora für die Schweiz, 1867 (5th edition translated into English by Leonard W. Paitson as "The Flora of Switzerland" 1888)
• Beiträge zur Flora der Schweiz (Contributions to the Flora of Switzerland), 1870
• Neue Beiträge zur Flora der Schweiz (New Contributions to the Flora of Switzerland), 1880-1890