"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 ...
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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 botanical family Cyperaceae (sedges). He created several exsiccatae collections, and 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 Botanischen Zeitschrift." - (en.wikipedia.org 05.07.2022)
