Carl Moritz Gottsche
Carl Moritz Gottsche (3 July 1808 – 28 September 1892) was a German physician and bryologist born in Altona. He was the father of geologist Carl Christian Gottsche (1859-1909).
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Gottsche was a leading authority of Hepaticae. With Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776-1858) and Johann Bernhard Wilhelm Lindenberg (1781-1851), he was author of Synopsis Hepaticarum (1844-47), which was a landmark work in the field of hepaticology.
In 1881 he received an honorary doctorate in philosophy from the University of Kiel.[1]
The botanical genera of liverworts; Gottschea in the family Schistochilaceae is named after him, as well as Gottschelia, which is in the family Cephaloziellaceae.[2][3]
References[edit]
- ^ Biography @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
- ^ "Gottschelia Grolle". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Gottsche.
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