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Baron von Ludwig
German natural history collector / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carl Ferdinand Heinrich von Ludwig aka Baron von Ludwig (6 October 1784 Sulz am Neckar – 27 December 1847 Cape Town), the son of a clerk in the ecclesiastical administration, he was a German-born pharmacist, businessman and patron of the natural sciences, noted for having started Cape Town's first botanic garden.
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Ludwigsburg Garden in 1834
John Herschel
John Herschel