Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel (30 May 1783 – 12 May 1856) was a German

physician A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the Medical education, study, Med ...

and an authority on

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Biography

Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel was born at

Esslingen am Neckar Esslingen am Neckar (Swabian German, Swabian: ''Esslenga am Neckor''; until 16 October 1964 officially '' Eßlingen am Neckar'') is a town in the Stuttgart Region of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, seat of the Esslingen (district), Distri ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million i ...

. He was educated at the

University of Tübingen The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (; ), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The University of Tübingen is one of eleven German Excellenc ...

, earning his medical doctorate in 1805. Shortly afterwards he settled into a medical practice in his hometown of Esslingen and in 1826 became the chief state physician in what had become the

Kingdom of Württemberg The Kingdom of Württemberg ( ) was a German state that existed from 1806 to 1918, located within the area that is now Baden-Württemberg. The kingdom was a continuation of the Electorate of Württemberg, which existed from 1803 to 1806. Geogr ...

. In 1825, together with

Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter (16 February 1787 – 20 February 1860) was a German botanist and Protestant minister. Biography Hochstetter was born in Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg. He was the father of geologist Ferdinand von ...

(1787-1860), he managed an organization in Esslingen known as Unio Itineraria (''Württembergischer botanischer Reiseverein''). The purpose of this society was to send young botanists out into the world to discover and collect plants in all of their varieties thus promoting and expanding botanical studies and

herbaria A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study. The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sheet of paper (called ...

throughout the Kingdom and beyond. The result was the publication and distribution of a number of exsiccatae and exsiccata-like series. The fourteen series with the title ''Unio itineraria'' are listed and described with bibliographic data in IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae.Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 ''IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae''. – Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany. Hochstetter himself traveled to Portugal, Madeira, and the Azores, and Steudel was able to create a herbarium of over 20,000 species. Steudel and Hochstetter were the co-authors of ''Enumeratio plantarum Germaniae'' (1826). The botanical genera '' Steudelago'' ( Kuntze, 1891) and '' Steudelella'' (Honda, 1930) honor his name.

Publications

* ''Nomenclator botanicus'', 2 volumes (1821-1824), An alphabetical listing of more than 3300 genera and approximately 40,000 species. * ''Enumeratio plantarum Germaniae'', 1826 (with Christian Ferdinand Hochstetter). * ''Synopsis planterum glumacearum'', 2 volumes (1853-1855), Volume I is dedicated to the botanical family

Poaceae Poaceae ( ), also called Gramineae ( ), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivate ...

, and Volume II involves

Cyperaceae The Cyperaceae () are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as wikt:sedge, sedges. The family (biology), family is large; botanists have species description, described some 5,500 known species in about 90 ...

and affiliated families.Botanicus.org
(biographical information)

References

19th-century German physicians Agrostologists 1783 births 1856 deaths People from Esslingen am Neckar People from the Duchy of Württemberg University of Tübingen alumni 19th-century German botanists 18th-century German botanists {{Germany-botanist-stub