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
Carl Christian Gottsche (1 March 1855, Altona – 11 October 1909) was a German geologist. He is known for geological investigations of Schleswig-Holstein and neighboring regions.
He studied geology at the Universities of Würzburg and Munich, ob ...
(1859-1909).

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
The Marchantiophyta () are a division of non-vascular land plants commonly referred to as hepatics or liverworts. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry only a single set of ...
.
In 1881 he received an honorary doctorate in philosophy from the
University of Kiel.
The botanical
genera
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...
of
liverworts; ''
Gottschea
''Gottschea'' is a genus of liverworts belonging to the family Schistochilaceae.
The species of this genus are found in Southern Hemisphere.
The genus name of ''Gottschelia'' is in honour of Carl Moritz Gottsche (1808–1892), who was a German ...
'' in the family
Schistochilaceae
Schistochilaceae is a family of liverworts in the order Jungermanniales
Jungermanniales is the largest order of liverworts. They are distinctive among the liverworts for having thin leaf-like flaps on either side of the stem. Most other live ...
is named after him, as well as ''
Gottschelia
''Gottschelia'' is a genus of liverworts belonging to the family Cephaloziellaceae.
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.
The genus name of ''Gottschelia'' is in honour of Carl Moritz Gottsche (1808–1892), who was a German physician and b ...
'', which is in the family
Cephaloziellaceae
Cephaloziellaceae is a family of liverworts belonging to the order Jungermanniales.
Genera
Genera:
*'' Allisoniella'' E.A.Hodgs.
*'' Amphicephalozia'' R.M.Schust.
*'' Anastrophyllopsis'' (R.M.Schust.) Vána & L.Söderstr.
*'' Cephalojonesia'' Gr ...
.
References
External links
Stephani’s Species Hepaticarum Revisited
19th-century German botanists
Bryologists
1808 births
1892 deaths
Scientists from Hamburg
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