Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (4 November 1742,
Holderbank, Aargau – 26 June 1795) was a German
botanist, a pupil of
Carl Linnaeus
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at
Uppsala University
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, and later director of the
Botanical Garden
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of
Hannover
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, where he produced several major botanical works between 1780 and 1793. Ehrhart was the first
author
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to use the rank of
subspecies in botanical literature, and he published many subspecific names between 1780 and 1789.
In 1779,
Carl Peter Thunberg
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(1743–1828) named a genus of
grasses
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, ''
Ehrharta'', in Ehrhart's honor.
Publications
* ''Chloris hanoverana'', 1776.
* ''Supplementum systematis vegetabilium, generum et specierum plantarum'', 1781.
* ''Beiträge zur Naturkunde, und den damit verwandten Wissenschaften, besonders der Botanik, Chemie, Haus- und Landwirthschaft, Arzneigelahrtheit und Apothekerkunst'', seven volumes (1787 to 1792) – Contributions to
natural history, etc.
* Autobiography in Usteri's Annals of Botany.
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References
1742 births
1795 deaths
People from Lenzburg District
Bryologists
Pteridologists
Botanists with author abbreviations
18th-century German botanists
German mycologists
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