Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (December 9, 1798 – November 20, 1875) was a German

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who was a native of

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. He studied

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at the

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, and in 1818 took a botanical journey through

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and

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. In 1822 he became a lecturer at

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, where he later became a professor. In 1837 he was appointed director of its

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. The plant genus ''

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'' from the family

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is named in his honor.CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific ..., Volume 1
By Umberto Quattrocchi

Selected publications

* ''De litoribus ac insulis maris Liburnici'' (1820). * ''Ordines naturales plantarum'' (1830). * ''Flora der österreichischen Küstenländer'', (Flora of the Austrian coastal area), (1825). * ''Vegetabilia cellularia in Germania septentrionali praesertim in Hercynia et in agro Gottingensi lecta'' (1834 and 1836), with

Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe (5 July 1795 – 23 November 1880) was a German pharmacist, botanist and bryologist who was a native of Fürstenberg. In 1810 he became an apprentice pharmacist to his uncle in Brakel, and over the next fifteen years wo ...

(1795–1880).

References

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''. * 19th-century German botanists Scientists from Hanover University of Göttingen faculty 1798 births 1875 deaths Members of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities {{Germany-botanist-stub