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Franz Wilhelm Neger
Franz (Friedrich) Wilhelm Neger (1868 - 30 December 1923) was a botanist, explorer, teacher and German.

He studied natural history at the University of Munich, where he received his doctorate in 1892. After a year as a high school teacher in Weihenstephan, he traveled to Chile as a scientist and advisor to the Commission on the Limits of Chile. He was professor of Liceo German men of Concepción, and remained in the country for five years, exploring around Concepción (Chile) and made an expedition of five months in the Andes between 1896-1897 that took him from Valdivia through virgin forests.

On his return to Germany, he was appointed curator of the herbarium of Munich (1897-1902) and later professor of botany at the Forestry University Eisenach, 1902 to 1905, where he moved with his Swedish wife. His domestic happiness did not last long, was widowed a year after their wedding. Leaving that trauma Tharandt moved to near Dresden, where he spent fifteen years as a professor of botany at the University forest there. Remarried in 1908 and fathered the following year.

Neger and his family lived in a beautiful house in the grounds of the botanical garden with wonderful views of the forested mountains of Saxony. In 1920, he was offered a position at the University of Dresden he could not refuse. He remained fifteen years spent in Tharandt. He undertook several trips to Europe, Spain, Croatia, Corsica and Sweden. He spent the last three years of his life as director of the Botanical Institute and Botanical Garden in Dresden. He died before 60 years due to health problems exacerbated by malaria contracted in Chile.