Paul Dietrich Giseke (8 December 1741 – 26 April 1796) was a German botanist, physician, teacher and librarian. Giseke_map

He was born in

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, Germany. Giseke was the son of a Hamburg merchant. He started his studies at the Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg. He joined the

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in 1764 and graduated in medicine in 1767. He then went on an extended trip through

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and

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and met

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, becoming his student and a lifelong friend - Linnaeus named the genus '' Gisekia'', now in family Gisekiaceae, after him. Giseke made notes of Linnaeus' lectures and published them in 1792 as ''Praelectiones in Ordines Naturales Plantarum''. The book included an illustration "Tabula genealogico-geographica affinitatum plantarum secundum ordines naturales Linnaei" which showed the affinities of the families in a form similar to a geographical map. It included circles for families with the size indicating the number of genera contained. Back from his travels, he settled in Hamburg and started practice as a physician, but in December 1771 started teaching as Professor of Physics and

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at the Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg. He became a librarian at Hamburg from 1784. He was admitted to the Leopoldina academy posthumously.

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* 18th-century German botanists Scientists from Hamburg 1741 births 1796 deaths 18th-century German physicians 18th-century German educators German librarians {{Germany-botanist-stub