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Christian Konrad Sprengel

Christian Konrad Sprengel
Cover page of Sprengel's landmark book (1793)
Born22 September 1750
Brandenburg an der Havel
Died7 April 1816 (1816-04-08) (aged 65)
Berlin
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Halle-Wittenberg
Known forplant sexuality
Scientific career
Fieldsnatural history
A small monument designed after the frontispiece of Spengel's fundamental work can be seen in Berlin Botanical Gardens. It was erected by Adolf Engler in 1917 after the 100th anniversary of Sprengel's death.

Christian Konrad Sprengel (22 September 1750 – 7 April 1816) was a German naturalist, theologist, and teacher. He is most famous for his research on plant sexuality. Sprengel was the first to recognize that the function of flowers was to attract insects, and that nature favored cross-pollination. Along with the work of Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter he set the foundations for the modern study of floral biology and anthecology, but his work was not widely recognized until Charles Darwin examined and confirmed several of his observations almost 50 years later; see Fertilisation of Orchids (1862).

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