Julius von Sachs, German botanist, was born in Breslau, Silesia. At an early age he showed a taste for natural history, and on leaving school he became, in 1851, private assistant to the physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkinje at Prague. In 1856 he graduated as doctor of philosophy, and then adopted a botanical career, establishing himself as "Privatdozent" for plant physiology in the University of Prague. Wikipedia
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