Karl Ritter von Goebel

Karl Immanuel Eberhard Ritter von Goebel FRS FRSE (8 March 1855, Billigheim, Baden – 9 October 1932, Munich)[1][2] was a German botanist.

[3] His main fields of study were comparative functional anatomy, morphology, and the developmental physiology of plants under the influence of both phylogenetic and extrinsic factors.

Starting in 1873, Goebel studied theology and philosophy, as well as botany with Wilhelm Hofmeister, at the University of Tuebingen.

From 1887–1891 he was a professor at Marburg, and from 1891–1931 at the University of Munich, where he laid out the new Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg, and served as its first director.

[6] In 1914 was named a foreign member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome, and in 1926 was elected to the Royal Society.