Eduard Adolf Strasburger (1 February 1844 – 18 May 1912) was a Polish-German[1] professor and one of the most famous botanists of the 19th century.

[2] Strasburger studied biological sciences in Paris, Bonn and Jena, receiving a PhD in 1866 after working with Nathanael Pringsheim.

Strasburge was a founder of the famous Lehrbuch der Botanik für Hochschulen (Textbook of Botany), which first appeared in 1894.

Together with Walther Flemming and Edouard van Beneden, he elucidated chromosome distribution during cell division.

His work on the upward movement of tree sap proved that the process was physical and not physiological.