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Gotthilf Henry Ernest Muhlenberg
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Gotthilf Henry Ernest Muhlenberg

American botanist
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Gotthilf Henry Ernest Muhlenberg was an American botanist and Lutheran minister. He was the first president of Franklin College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1787. The genus of slender, often wiry perennial grasses known as Muhlenbergia was named in his honor. These grasses are of some importance as forage in the western United States.12

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