Career
In 1890 he was habilitated for botany at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where he spent several years as a professor At Karlsruhe, he also worked in the bacteriology department of the Food Research Institute. He published many articles on the subjects of cryptogamic botany, bacteriology, and plant physiology.
He is remembered for describing the proteobacterial genus Pseudomonas, and for publication of Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Deutsch-Österreich und der Schweiz, a work connected with Otto Wilhelm Thomé"s Flora von Deutschland.
Other significant works by Migula include:
Die Bakterien, 1891
System der bakterien. Handbuch der morphologie, entwicklungsgeschichte und systematik der bakterien, 1897–1900.
(two volumes)
Pflanzenbiologie, 1900
Morphologie, Anatomie und Physiologie der Pflanzen, 2nd edition 1906 Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf.