Richard Evans Schultes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Richard Evans Schultes

American ethnobotanist

Date of Birth: 12-Jan-1915

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 10-Apr-2001

Profession: botanist, anthropologist, ethnobotanist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Richard Evans Schultes

  • Richard Evans Schultes (SHULL-tees; January 12, 1915 – April 10, 2001) was an American biologist.
  • He may be considered the father of modern ethnobotany.
  • He is known for his studies of the uses of plants by indigenous peoples, especially the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
  • He worked on entheogenic or hallucinogenic plants, particularly in Mexico and the Amazon, involving lifelong collaborations with chemists.
  • He had charismatic influence as an educator at Harvard University; several of his students and colleagues went on to write popular books and assume influential positions in museums, botanical gardens, and popular culture. His book The Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers (1979), co-authored with chemist Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD, is considered his greatest popular work: it has never been out of print and was revised into an expanded second edition, based on a German translation by Christian Rätsch (1998), in 2001.

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