Valentin Rose (classicist) - Personal Life

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Valentin Rose was the son of mineralogist Gustav Rose (1798-1873), and a nephew to famed mineralogist Heinrich Rose (1795-1864) and to the pharmacist Wilhelm Rose (1792-1867), of whom he published a brief remembrance (Berlin 1867). His great-grandfather was pharmacologist Valentin Rose the Elder (1736-1771), and his grandfather was Valentin Rose the Younger (1762-1807), who was also a noted pharmacologist. His younger brother was the surgeon Edmund Rose. In August 1872 he married Marie Poggendorff, the daughter of Johann Christian Poggendorff.

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