Moritz Heinrich Wilhelm Albert Emil (Moritz) Büsgen (1858–1921)

German botanist. Studied at Bonn, Berlin, and Straßburg (Strasbourg), where he studied under Anton de Bary and later was his assistant at the Zoological Station at Naples. PhD, Straßburg, 1882; Privat-dozent, then professor extraordinarius in botany, Jena, 1886–92. Professor of botany, school of forestry, Eisenach, 1893–1901; Hann. Münden, 1901–21. Made research expeditions to the Dutch East Indies, 1902–3; Cameroon and Togo, 1908–9.