Alfred Meebold


Alfred Karl Meebold was a botanist, writer, and anthroposophist.

Life

Meebold worked at his father's factory, in the Württembergische Cattunmanufactur.
He travelled to India three times, first in 1904, and to Australia and New Zealand for the first time in 1928.
Meebold became a personal student of Rudolf Steiner.
Between 1928 and 1938 he spent many months in Budapest, Hungary, where he worked at the first non-German-language Waldorf school in the world. Its founder was Nagy Emilné Göllner Mária.
Meebold left Europe in 1938, intending to relocate to New Zealand. He was delayed in Hawaii because of World War II, and was not able to leave Honolulu until after 1945.
Meebold was a prolific botanical collector. In Australia's herbaria there are 1539 specimens that he collected. The Australian plant species Darwinia meeboldii is named in his honour, as are Acacia meeboldii, Geranium meeboldii and the genus Meeboldina.

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