Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Maria Gugelberg von Moos(1836-1918) was a well renowned Swiss botanist and floral artist. Growing up in the outstanding natural fauna of Salenegg, she found herself captivated by natural history, and especially botany, from a very early age. She started studying extensively when she reached middle age, systematically collecting and studying plants.Her most important work surrounded her study of mosses and liverworts, discovering forty-seven new species in the Graubünden region, and other cantons of Switzerland. She also worked with botanist Christian Georg Brügger, printing out illustrations of his hybrids. Some of her illustrations, including the Primrose, Sempervivum and Saxifraga, were especially important at the time. In terms of other accomplishments,Gugelberg von Moos was also the first woman named a corresponding member of the Naturforschende Gesellschaft Graubündens due to her contributions in botany.On October 29, 1918, she died at age eighty-three.. }
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- Maria_Gugelberg_von_Moos abstract "Maria Gugelberg von Moos(1836-1918) was a well renowned Swiss botanist and floral artist. Growing up in the outstanding natural fauna of Salenegg, she found herself captivated by natural history, and especially botany, from a very early age. She started studying extensively when she reached middle age, systematically collecting and studying plants.Her most important work surrounded her study of mosses and liverworts, discovering forty-seven new species in the Graubünden region, and other cantons of Switzerland. She also worked with botanist Christian Georg Brügger, printing out illustrations of his hybrids. Some of her illustrations, including the Primrose, Sempervivum and Saxifraga, were especially important at the time. In terms of other accomplishments,Gugelberg von Moos was also the first woman named a corresponding member of the Naturforschende Gesellschaft Graubündens due to her contributions in botany.On October 29, 1918, she died at age eighty-three.".