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
Magdala (Aramaic: מגדלא, ''Magdala'', meaning "tower"; Hebrew: , ''Migdal''; ar, المجدل, ''al-Majdal'') was an ancient Jewish city on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, north of Tiberias. In the Babylonian Talmud it is known as Magda ...
, a town near
Weimar
Weimar is a city in the state (Germany), state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany (cultural area), Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg an ...
. 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
''Merremia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae. Members of the genus are commonly known as woodroses.
Species
The following species are recognised in the genus ''Merremia'':
*'' M. aniseiifolia ...
''. He entered many of his taxonomic findings in the register "''Schlüssel zum Hortus indicus malabaricus''". The genus ''
Dennstaedtia
''Dennstaedtia'' is a mostly tropical and subtropical genus of ferns described as a genus in 1801. Hayscented fern, or Cup ferns, are common names for some species in this genus. Its best-known member is probably the temperate North-American h ...
''
Bernh.
Johann Jakob Bernhardi (1 September 1774, in Erfurt – 13 May 1850, in Erfurt) was a German doctor and botanist.
Biography
Johann J. Bernhardi studied Medicine and Botany at the University of Erfurt, and after graduation practiced medicine for a ...
(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.
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published works
References
1776 births
1826 deaths
19th-century German botanists
People from Weimarer Land
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