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1863-1949.
Alfred Rehder was born in Saxony to the gardener of a duke's estate. Rehder worked at major German botanical collections until his early 30's, when he was sent to North America in 1898 at the age of 34. Rehder soon came to attention of Liberty Hyde Bailey, who wrote works on North American horticulture, to which Rehder contributed major chapters. By 1911, he was working with Charles S. Sargent of Harvard University, compiling a bibliography of botanical works from around the world. With Wilson, Rehder described many Asian species that were first described botanically and imported to North America in the first two decades of the 20th century in Plantae Wilsonianae. In 1918 Rehder was appointed curator of Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum.

From the Bulletin of Popular Information of the Arnold Arboreum, Series 4, Vol. VIII, No. 11, Oct. 1940:
Professor Alfred Rehder, born and educated in Germany, came to the United States in 1898 when he was 34, first working at the Arnold Arboretum as a summer student. He worked with Prof. Liberty H. Bailey on the Cyclopedia of American Horticulture and with Prof. Charles S. Sargent on the Bradley Bibiliography and Plantae Wilsonianae. In 1918 he was appointed curator of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, where he worked until retirement in 1940.

From the New York Times,, Aug. 13, 1911:
Mr. Alfred Rehder...is the son of a gardener of a ducal estate in Germany, where he early acquired a knowledge of botany, has been engaged in compiling "A Guide to the Literature of Woody Plants..." This will be known a the Bradley Bibliography.