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Johann Andreas Kneucker

Johann Andreas Kneucker is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Johann Andreas Kneucker rather than just read about it. In short: Johann Andreas Kneucker (24 January 1862 – 22 December 1946) was a German botanical collector who was a native of Wenkheim, a village that today is part of the community of Werbach, Baden-Württemberg. Up until 1923 he was a schoolteacher in Karlsruhe, afterwards working as curator of the natural history collection in Baden.

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Reference excerpt

Johann Andreas Kneucker (24 January 1862 – 22 December 1946) was a German botanical collector who was a native of Wenkheim, a village that today is part of the community of Werbach, Baden-Württemberg. Up until 1923 he was a schoolteacher in Karlsruhe, afterwards working as curator of the natural history collection in Baden. During his career he collected plants in southern Europe and northern Africa (Sinai Peninsula). Kneucker specialized in the plant family Cyperaceae (sedges). He edited and distributed several exsiccatae, among others Glumaceae exsiccatae: Carices exsiccatae (1896–1911) and Glumaceae exsiccatae: Gramineae exsiccatae (1900–1915). A number of his specimens are now kept in the herbarium at the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Karlsruhe. He was founder of the botanical magazine, Allgemeine Botanische Zeitschrift. In 1905 the algae genus Kneuckeria was named in his honor by Wilhelm Schmidle (1860–1951); the plant species Linaria kneuckeri (Bornm.) is also named after him.

Publications Bemerkungen zu den "Gramineae exsiccatae" (1900).

References

University of Goettingen Department of Systematic Botany (biography) Aluka, Short Biography

External links Media related to Johann Andreas Kneucker at Wikimedia Commons Andreas Kneucker at Deutsche Biographie

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Johann Andreas Kneucker

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Johann Andreas Kneucker ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Johann Andreas Kneucker

In research: Johann Andreas Kneucker appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Johann Andreas Kneucker in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Johann Andreas Kneucker is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1862 births, 1946 deaths, 19th-century German botanists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Johann Andreas Kneucker outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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