Gustav Wilhelm Körber

From 1835 studied natural sciences in Breslau and Berlin in 1838, obtaining his PhD in 1839 with the thesis De gonidiis lichenum.

[1] His teachers at Breslau included Heinrich Robert Göppert (1800-1884) and Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776-1858).

At Berlin his influences included Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen (1804-1840) and the chemist Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794-1863).

After graduation, he served as an instructor at the "Elisabethanum" in Breslau, and from 1862, worked as a private teacher.

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