Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (4 November 1742,
Holderbank, Aargau
Holderbank is a municipality in the district of Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
History
Archeological discoveries indicate that the area around Holderbank has been occupied since the Neolithic era. Discoveries include; indi ...
– 26 June 1795) was a German
botanist, a pupil of
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his Nobility#Ennoblement, ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalise ...
at
Uppsala University
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, and later director of the
Botanical Garden
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of
Hannover
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, where he produced several major botanical works between 1780 and 1793. Ehrhart was the first
author
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"''An author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility f ...
to use the rank of
subspecies in botanical literature, and he published many subspecific names between 1780 and 1789.
In 1779,
Carl Peter Thunberg (1743–1828) named a genus of
grasses
Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns ...
, ''
Ehrharta
''Ehrharta'' is a genus of plants in the grass family.Thunberg, Carl Peter. 1779. Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar 40: 217, pl. 8
Most of the species are native to Africa, with a few from Southeast Asia and from various islands in the A ...
'', in Ehrhart's honor.
Publications
* ''Chloris hanoverana'', 1776.
* ''Supplementum systematis vegetabilium, generum et specierum plantarum'', 1781.
* ''Beiträge zur Naturkunde, und den damit verwandten Wissenschaften, besonders der Botanik, Chemie, Haus- und Landwirthschaft, Arzneigelahrtheit und Apothekerkunst'', seven volumes (1787 to 1792) – Contributions to
natural history, etc.
* Autobiography in Usteri's Annals of Botany.
[List of publications copied from an article on Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart at German Wikipedia.]
References
1742 births
1795 deaths
People from Lenzburg District
Bryologists
Pteridologists
Botanists with author abbreviations
18th-century German botanists
German mycologists
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