August Wilhelm Dennstedt (1776–1826), surname sometimes spelled Dennstaedt, was a German physician and botanist who was

bürgermeister Burgomaster (alternatively spelled burgermeister, literally "master of the town, master of the borough, master of the fortress, master of the citizens") is the English form of various terms in or derived from Germanic languages for the chief ...

of Magdala, a town near

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...

. From 1817 he was scientific director of the Grand Ducal Garden in Belvedere. He was the taxonomic author of numerous botanical taxa; three examples being the genera '' Bruxanelia'', '' Coulejia'' and '' Merremia''. He entered many of his taxonomic findings in the register "''Schlüssel zum Hortus indicus malabaricus''". The genus '' Dennstaedtia'' Bernh. (family

Dennstaedtiaceae Dennstaedtiaceae is one of fifteen families in the order Polypodiales, the most derived families within monilophytes (ferns). It comprises 10 genera with ca 240 known species, including one of the world's most abundant ferns, ''Pteridium aquilin ...

) is named in his honor.

Published works

* ''Weimar's Flora: Pflanzen mit deutlichen Geschlechtern'', Volume 1, 1800. * ''Pflanzen mit Luftgefäßen'', 1807. * ''Nomenclator botanicus: seu, Enumeratio alphabetica omnium hucusque cognitorum vegetabilium, adjectis praecipuis synonymis'', 1810. * ''Das Gewächsreich: oder characterisirende Beschreibung aller zur Zeit bekannten Gewächse''. * ''Hortus Belvedereanus. Oder Verzeichniss der bestimmten Pflanzen'', 1820.Google Search
published works

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1776 births 1826 deaths 19th-century German botanists People from Weimarer Land {{Germany-botanist-stub