Daniel Matthias Heinrich Mohr (8 April 1780,

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– 26 August 1808,

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) was a German botanist. As a young botanist from

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, he started his career as a pupil of

Johan Christian Fabricius Johan Christian Fabricius (7 January 1745 – 3 March 1808) was a Danish zoologist, specialising in "Insecta", which at that time included all arthropods: insects, arachnids, crustaceans and others. He was a student of Carl Linnaeus, and is co ...

and

Heinrich Adolf Schrader Heinrich Adolf Schrader (1 January 1767 in Alfeld near Hildesheim – 22 October 1836 in Göttingen) was a German botanist and mycologist. He studied medicine early in life. He named the Australian plant genus '' Hakea'' in 1797. In 1795 he ...

at the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...

. He later became a professor of

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and botany, and his research projects focused on algae and

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s. He named many species (often together with Friedrich Weber) and was among the first to systematise algae by means of their reproduction. In 1803 he obtained his doctorate from the

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with the dissertation ''Observationes Botanicae quibus plantarum cryptogamarum ordines''. In the summer of 1803, with Weber, he toured southern Sweden and made the acquaintance of

Erik Acharius Erik Acharius (10 October 1757 – 14 August 1819) was a Swedish botanist who pioneered the taxonomy of lichens and is known as the "father of lichenology." Acharius was famously the last pupil of Carl Linnaeus. Life Acharius was born in 1 ...

Olof Swartz Olof Peter Swartz (21 September 1760 – 19 September 1818) was a Swedish botanist and taxonomist. He is best known for his taxonomic work and studies into pteridophytes. Biography Olof Swartz attended the University of Uppsala where he s ...

, Carl Peter Thunberg and

Adam Afzelius Adam Afzelius (8 October 175020 January 1837) was a Swedish botanist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Afzelius was born at Larv in Västergötland in 1750. He was appointed teacher of oriental languages at Uppsala University in 1777, and in 17 ...

. As a result of the journey, Mohr and Weber published ''Naturhistorische Reise durch einen Theil Schwedens'' (1804). In 1807 he became an associate professor at Kiel, but died the following year at the age of 28. In addition to the aforementioned work, he also published with Weber the following: * ''Index musei plantarum cryptogamarum'', 1803. * ''Beiträge zur Naturkunde Erster Band'', 1805. * ''Beiträge zur Naturkunde 2'', 1810. In 1806 Olof Swartz named the botanical genus '' Mohria'' after him.BHL
Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications

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