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 Grab 126

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 ...

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External links

Stephani’s Species Hepaticarum Revisited

19th-century German botanists Bryologists 1808 births 1892 deaths Scientists from Hamburg {{Germany-botanist-stub