Carl Moritz Gottsche (3 July 1808 – 28 September 1892) was a German physician and bryologist born in Altona. He was the father of

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Carl Christian Gottsche Carl Christian Gottsche (1 March 1855 – 11 October 1909) was a German geologist. He is known for geological investigations of Schleswig-Holstein and neighboring regions. He was born in Altona, Duchy of Holstein, Denmark. He studied geology at t ...

(1859-1909). Gottsche was a leading authority of

Hepaticae Liverworts are a group of non-vascular land plants forming the division Marchantiophyta (). They may also be referred to as hepatics. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry onl ...

. With

Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (14 February 1776 – 16 March 1858) was a prolific Germany, German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Carl Li ...

(1776-1858) and

Johann Bernhard Wilhelm Lindenberg Johann Bernhard Wilhelm Lindenberg (18 September 1781 – 6 June 1851) was a German bryologist who worked as a lawyer in Bergedorf (today a burrough of Hamburg). He was a native of Lübeck, and studied law at the Universities of Jena and Göttin ...

(1781-1851), he was author of ''Synopsis Hepaticarum'' (1844-47), which was a landmark work in the field of

hepaticology Liverworts are a group of non-vascular land plants forming the division Marchantiophyta (). They may also be referred to as hepatics. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry onl ...

. Together with

Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst (22 March 1806 – 24 April 1881) was a German botanist and mycologist. Biography Rabenhorst was born in Treuenbrietzen. He studied in Berlin and Belzig from 1822 to 1830, worked as a pharmacist in Luckau until 1840, ...

he issued and distributed no. 221 until no. 600 of the

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series ''Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker''. In 1881 he received an honorary doctorate in philosophy from the

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. The botanical

genera Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial s ...

liverwort Liverworts are a group of non-vascular land plants forming the division Marchantiophyta (). They may also be referred to as hepatics. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry ...

s; '' Gottschea'' in the family Schistochilaceae is named after him, as well as '' Gottschelia'', which is in the family

Cephaloziellaceae Cephaloziellaceae is a family of liverworts belonging to the order Jungermanniales. Genera As accepted in 2016 (with the number of species in parentheses): *''Allisoniella'' E.A.Hodgs. (5) *''Amphicephalozia'' R.M.Schust. (3) *''Anastrophyllops ...

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Stephani’s Species Hepaticarum Revisited

19th-century German botanists People from the Duchy of Holstein German bryologists 1808 births 1892 deaths Scientists from Hamburg {{Germany-botanist-stub