Christian Georg Brügger

Christian Georg Brügger (11 March 1833, Churwalden – 16 October 1899) was a Swiss botanist and naturalist.

He studied natural sciences in Munich and Innsbruck, afterwards spending several years as curator of the botanical museum at Zurich Polytechnic (1859–70). From 1870 to 1898, he taught classes in natural history and geography at the Graubünden canton school.[1]

He was the author of numerous articles on botany, zoology, meteorology, et al. being published in the Jahresberichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Graubünden.[1] As a taxonomist he described many botanical species.[2]

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