Background
Charles Theodor Mohr was born on December 28, 1824, in Esslingen, Württemberg. He was the son of Louis M. Mohr.
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The Timber Pines of the Southern United States
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The Forests of Alabama and Their Products: the Grasses, and Other Forage Plants of Alabama, Indigeneous ! Naturalized, and Cultivated.
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Plant life of Alabama, an account of the distribution, modes of association, and adaptations of the flora of Alabama, together with a systematic catalogue of the plants growing in the state
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Charles Theodore Mohr
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Karl Theodor Mohr
Education
Derived from a family noted for its representatives in chemistry and pharmacology, he entered the polytechnic high school in Stuttgart as a student of chemistry, pharmacy, and mineralogy, having as his instructor in chemistry Hermann von Fehling. Although he had become interested in natural history as a boy, his association at the Polytechnicum with Fehling (who had recently come from Liebig's laboratory at Giessen), with Wilhelm Hochstetter, and with the botanist Johann Hohenacker, decided him to devote himself entirely to natural history. Mohr was granted an honorary Ph. D. in 1893 by the University of Alabama in recognition of his contributions to the knowledge of the State's flora and geology.
Career
After his graduation in 1845, Mohr accompanied August Kappler to Dutch Guiana as botanical collector. In this work he engaged for a few months, until a protracted illness forced him to return to Germany at the end of 1846. After the revolution of 1848 he decided, with his brother, to emigrate to the United States, and accordingly came to Cincinnati, then a German community of considerable magnitude, where he took employment as chemist with a chemical manufacturer. During this period, he continued his botanical studies and built up a large herbarium, paying particular attention to plants of economic, especially medical, importance. He went to California with the gold rush in 1849, returning the following year with his health permanently impaired. From Cincinnati he removed to Louisville, where he engaged in business as a pharmacist and greatly extended his botanical studies. In 1857, he moved because of his health to Mobile, Alabama, which remained his home until nearly the end of his life. Here he engaged in pharmacy, and began the extensive studies on the botany of Alabama which constitute his claim to fame.
A year before his death, he moved from Mobile to Asheville, North Carolina, there to work in the Biltmore Herbarium and finish seeing through the press his magnum opus, the Plant Life of Alabama. His death, at Asheville, cut short the completion of his projected "Economic Botany of Alabama, " which he had planned as the crowning work of his career.
Achievements
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Mohr published nearly a hundred papers on botanical subjects, the most important among them being a report on the forests of Alabama for the Tenth Census; an important memoir on the timber pines of the southern United States; and an extensive memoir of over 900 pages on Plant Life of Alabama. The last was reissued, also in 1901, with a biographical sketch and portrait of the author, by the Geological Survey of Alabama. Mohr also made for various organizations important collections of plants and minerals of Alabama; and assembled exhibits for the expositions at Atlanta (1881) and New Orleans (1884).
Works
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The Timber Pines of the Southern United States
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Notes on the Red Cedar; Volume No.31
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Plant life of Alabama, an account of the distribution, modes of association, and adaptations of the flora of Alabama, together with a systematic catalogue of the plants growing in the state
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- The Forests of Alabama and Their Products: the Grasses, and Other Forage Plants of Alabama, Indigeneous ! Naturalized, and Cultivated.
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The Timber Pines of the Southern United States
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
Of his personality and character, a contemporary said: "Mohr is possessed of a true scientific spirit and great enthusiasm in his botanical work. He has not only increased the sum of our knowledge, but has added to our powers of direct usefulness".
Dr. Eugene A. Smith, long his colleague on the Geological Survey of Alabama, writes: "Personally Dr. Mohr was the most lovable and unselfish of men, totally devoid of affectation and pretense inspiring all who knew him with love and respect".
Connections
On March 12, 1852, at Louisville, Mohr married Sophia Roemer, a native of Zweibrücken, Bavaria, who became the mother of three sons and two daughters.
- Father:
- Louis M. Mohr
- Wife:
- Sophia Elisabetha Roemer Mohr
- Daughter:
- Julia Dorothea Mohr Ruland
- Daughter:
- Pauline Mohr Owen
- Son:
- Dr Herman Bernard Mohr.
- Son:
- Augustus Steven Mohr
- Son:
- Dr Charles A Mohr
15 April 1828 - 15 August 1907
2 November 1853 - 5 July 1929
13 August 1864 - 21 September 1938
1859 - 19 September 1914
13 January 1860 - 6 October 1942
1 April 1857 - 27 November 1949
