Biography

German mycologist and forest botanist. Alfred Möller was the nephew and biographer of the German-born naturalist and Darwinist Fritz Müller, who devoted his life to botany and entomology in Santa Catarina, Brazil. Möller went to Brazil towards the end of the 1880s and spent 1890-1893 with Müller in Blumenau on the south-east coast. Here he made pioneering studies of the cultivation of fungi by ants and carried out research resulting in three volumes on Brazilian fungi and moulds, which appeared as part of A.F.W. Schimper's series, Botanische Mittheilungen aus den Tropen. Möller, born in Berlin, began his career in forest botany at the Institute of Forest Research in Eberswalde, eastern Germany, of which he was in 1908 appointed director. In the last six years of his life, Möller also published a collection of the works of, and biography of, Fritz Müller. A street in Eberswalde is now named in Möller's honour.

Sources:
E. Jahn, 1923, "Alfred Möller", Berichte der Deutschen Botanische Gesellschaft, 41: (75)-(83).