Johann Horkel (8 September 1769 in Burg auf Fehmarn – 15 November 1846 in

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) was a German physician and

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

. From 1787 he studied medicine at the

University of Halle Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (), also referred to as MLU, is a public research university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg. It is the largest and oldest university in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. MLU offers German and i ...

, where in 1802 he was named an associate professor. From 1804 to 1810 he served as a full professor of medicine at Halle, afterwards relocating to

, where he spent the rest of his career as a professor of

plant physiology Plant physiology is a subdiscipline of botany concerned with the functioning, or physiology, of plants. Plant physiologists study fundamental processes of plants, such as photosynthesis, respiration, plant nutrition, plant hormone functions, tr ...

.Sharks: An Eponym Dictionary
by Michael Watkins, Bo Beolens In 1800/01 he was editor of the journal ''Archiv für die thierische Chemie'', and for a period of time, was an editor of the ''Deutsches Archiv für die Physiologie''. He was an uncle and a significant influence to the career of botanist

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. The botanical genera '' Horkelia'' ( Cham. &

Schltdl. Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (27 November 1794, Xanten – 12 October 1866, Halle an der Saale, Halle) was a German botanist. Life and work Von Schlechtendal was born in Xanten, Xanten am Rhein and when his father Diederich Fried ...

) and '' Horkeliella'' ( Rydb.) commemorate his name,The Names of Plants
by D. Gledhill as does the fish species ''Rhinobatos horkelii'' (

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