Johann Anton Schmidt (6 May 1823-21 January 1905) was a German botanist. Schmidt was born in

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-lar ...

to a merchant family. Under the request of their family, he became a gardener and studied botany in 1843 at the

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(with

Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff (21 May 1797 – 11 September 1854) was a German botanist and university professor. He was among the first to examine the reproduction of mosses and liverworts and is credited with coining the terms archegonia and anther ...

) and in 1849 at the

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(with

August Grisebach August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach (; 17 April 18149 May 1879) was a German botanist and phytogeographer. Biography Grisebach studied at the Lyceum in Hanover, the cloister-school at Ilfeld, and the University of Göttingen. He graduated in me ...

and Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling), in 1850, he was promoted with a dissertation of the causes of the plant to spread, in 1851, he went to a collecting trip in the Cape Verdean Islands and studied its habilitation in Heidelberg on the local flora of Cape Verde. In 1852, he became private lecturer of Heidelberg and studied the local flora. He also provided for example, mint and figworts for ''Flora Brasiliensis'' by

Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius Carl Friedrich Philipp (Karl Friedrich Philipp) von Martius (17 April 1794 – 13 December 1868) was a German botany, botanist and explorer. Between 1817 and 1820, he travelled 10,000 km through Brazil while collecting botanical specimens. His m ...

. In 1852 he became a member of the Leopoldine order. After the death of Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff, he temporarily headed the botanical garden. He hoped to have a full appointment succeeding Bischoff as director of the botanical gardens, instead,

Wilhelm Hofmeister Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister (18 May 1824 – 12 January 1877) was a German biologist and botanist. He "stands as one of the true giants in the history of biology and belongs in the same pantheon as Darwin and Mendel." Largely se ...

became in 1863. He was announced back to Hamburg as a tutor. He suffered a stroke in 1902 and after the death of his wife in 1904, he moved to Elberfeld, he died in 1905. Its herbarium is in Hamburg (hermabrium Hamburg, HBG) and the library is in Kiel. The genus of grasses named '' Schmidtia'' is named after him.

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* ''Beiträge zur Flora der Kapverdischen Inseln'', Heidelberg 1852 * ''Flora von Heidelberg'', Heidelberg 1857

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Johann Anton Schmidt at JSTOR.org
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schmidt, Johann Anton 1823 births 1905 deaths 19th-century German botanists Scientists from Hamburg

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