• Charles Schweinfurth (April 13, 1890 – November 16, 1970) was an American botanist and plant collector who distinguished himself by his studies on orchids...
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  • Schweinfurth may refer to: Albert C. Schweinfurth, American architect Charles F. Schweinfurth, American architect Georg August Schweinfurth (1836-1925)...
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    Charles Frederick Schweinfurth (September 3, 1857 – November 8, 1919) was an American architect in Cleveland, Ohio. His brother Julius Schweinfurth was...
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    Charles Yardley Turner, Max Bohm and Frederick Wilson. A stained glass window was designed and executed by Frederick Wilson and Charles Schweinfurth....
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    York to German immigrants Charles J. Schweinfurth and Katherine Ammon. His brothers A. C. Schweinfurth and Charles F. Schweinfurth were also architects and...
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    pressure from influential members including John Hay. Architect Charles Schweinfurth was hired to head the reconstruction of the church, which was dedicated...
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    orchid family, Orchidaceae. It was named after Harvard orchidologist Charles Schweinfurth. It has eleven currently recognized species, all native to Central...
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    Schweinfurth was the son of a German woodcarver who had immigrated to the United States a decade before his son Albert was born. His brothers Charles...
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  • Moon, Magdalena Peña de Sousa, Eleanor B. Phillips, Charles Schweinfurth, Elmer W. Smith, Charles Storer, and unknown artists. This orchid Herbarium would...
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  • Ames Orchid Herbarium at Harvard University, where he succeeded Charles Schweinfurth in 1958. In 1957 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Garay was...
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    Even before Linnaeus, botanists such as Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Charles Plumier and Pier Antonio Micheli were naming plants for people, sometimes...
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    Landmarks Make A Place in Pages of History". The Plain Dealer. p. A17; "Charles W. Thomas". The Plain Dealer. January 12, 1976. p. D9; Beard, David (November...
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    Julius A. Schweinfurth in a Gothic Revival style and completed in 1893. Julius A. Schweinfurth was a brother and partner to Charles F. Schweinfurth. Gate...
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    power, Rahma was visited at his headquarters in Deim Zubeir by Georg Schweinfurth, who described the slave trader's court as "little less than princely"...
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    by the famous New York-trained preeminent Cleveland architect Charles F. Schweinfurth who built the 45-room Tudor Revival style (which hearkens back...
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    which were traversed in many directions between 1860 and 1875 by Georg Schweinfurth and Gustav Nachtigal. These travellers not only added considerably to...
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    were developed to build a new cathedral in its present location. Charles F. Schweinfurth was selected as the architect for the new cathedral and had originally...
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    needed an authority like Dr. Schweinfurth to prove that pygmies actually exist in Africa" (referencing Georg August Schweinfurth's The Heart of Africa, published...
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  • described as important examples of African tribal art. Georg August Schweinfurth, a German explorer, who lived two years among the Bongo around 1865,...
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    illegitimate daughter of steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. Architect Charles F. Schweinfurth designed at least 15 mansions on the street. Samuel Mather's Mansion...
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    examples were built in other western states. In the 1890s, architect A. C. Schweinfurth incorporated Pueblo features into a number of his buildings in California...
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    residents that lived in Hough at the turn of the century. The Charles F. Schweinfurth Residence close to the corner of Chester and East 75th Street was...
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    Alice Louisa Wade, granddaughter of Jeptha Wade. They commissioned Charles F. Schweinfurth to come to Cleveland from New York City to build the Romanesque...
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    chemist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 Georg August Schweinfurth (1836–1925), Baltic German botanist and ethnologist who explored East...
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    "enjoy[ing]" it. Among the Mangbetu people in the northeast, Georg A. Schweinfurth saw a human arm being smoked over a fire. On another occasion, he watched...
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    were designed by architect Charles F. Schweinfurth. A 1930 addition to the Mather Memorial Building was designed by Charles Hopkinson. "National Register...
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    South Pacific (Cape Horn, Tonga Islands, Wallis and Futuna) Georg August Schweinfurth Baltic German 19th East and Central Africa Robert Falcon Scott English...
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  • Mayor in 1848. According to The Cook County Album of Genealogy, Francis Schweinfurth Sr., who had emigrated with his family from Germany, was a factor in...
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    in Central Africa: The Province of Equatoria (Hatt-ı İstiva)" (PDF). Schweinfurth, G.; Ratzel, F.; W. Felkin, R.; Hartlaub, G. (1888). Emin Pasha in Central...
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    Center for the Arts, Healdsburg, CA 2021 “Made In New York” Juried Show, Schweinfurth Center For The Arts, Auburn, NY, Second Prize Winner* 2021 “Bold Expressions”...
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