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Otto Gelert

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Otto Christian Leonor Gelert (9 November 1862 in Nybøl on Sundeved peninsula – 20 March 1899 in Copenhagen) was a Danish pharmacist and botanist, who specialized in plant floristics and systematics. He was a brother of sculptor Johannes Gelert.

In 1883 he received his degree in pharmacy and subsequently worked as a druggist in the communities of Ribe and Horsens. In 1885 he started to co-edit the exsiccata series Rubi exsiccati Daniae et Slesvigiae together with Peter Kristian Nicolaj Friderichsen.[1] From 1894 he worked as chemist at a sugar refinery in Tangermünde, Germany.[2] During the latter part of his career he worked at the botanical museum in Copenhagen. In 1897 he took a scientific excursion to the Canary Islands. In 1899 he died of tuberculosis in Copenhagen, aged 36.[3][4]

Plants with the specific epithet of gelertii commemorate his name, and example being Taraxacum gelertii.[5]

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  1. ^ "Rubi exsiccati Daniae et Slesvigiae: IndExs ExsiccataID=712214656". IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  2. ^ Botanisches Centralblatt
  3. ^ a b Salmonsens konversationsleksikon (biography).
  4. ^ BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
  5. ^ Flora of Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 4, Campanulaceae - Asteraceae by Peter Sell, Gina Murrell
  6. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Gelert.