Richard Evans SCHULTES

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Richard Evans Schultes (SHULL-tees) (January 12, 1915 – April 10, 2001) may be considered the father of modern ethnobotany, for his studies of indigenous peoples' (especially the indigenous peoples of the Americas) uses of plants, including especially entheogenic or hallucinogenic plants (particularly in Mexico and the Amazon), for his lifelong collaborations with chemists, and for his charismatic influence as an educator at Harvard University on a number of students and colleagues who 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.[1]

  • Primary profession
  • Writer
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 12 January 1915
  • Place of birth
  • Boston
  • Death date
  • 2001-04-10
  • Death age
  • 86
  • Place of death
  • Boston
  • Residence
  • Cambridge· Massachusetts
  • Education
  • Harvard University
  • Knows language
  • English language
  • Member of
  • The World Academy of Sciences·National Academy of Sciences·American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Influence
  • Richard Spruce·Oakes Ames·

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