Ernest (or Ernst) Friedrich Gilg (12 January 1867 in

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– 11 October 1933 in

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) was a German botanist.

Life

Gilg was

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of the Botanical Museum in Berlin. With fellow botanist

Adolf Engler Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler (25 March 1844 – 10 October 1930) was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, such as ''Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien'' (''The Natural Plant Families''), edited with ...

, he co-authored and published a syllabus on

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families, ''Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien'' (8th edition 1919). He also made contributions to Engler's "''

Das Pflanzenreich Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler (25 March 1844 – 10 October 1930) was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, such as ''Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien'' (''The Natural Plant Families''), edited with ...

''", (e.g. the section on the family

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). The Poaceae grass genus, '' Gilgiochloa'', was

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named after him. His spouse,

Charlotte Gilg-Benedict Charlotte Gilg-Benedict (1872–1965) was a German botanist noted for studying ''Capparaceae''. She co-authored several studies with Ernest Friedrich Gilg Ernest (or Ernst) Friedrich Gilg (12 January 1867 in Baden-Württemberg, Germany – 11 ...

(1872–1936), was co-author in some of his publications, and has the author abbreviation Gilg-Ben.

Work

* ''Pharmazeutische Warenkunde'', published 1911 * ''Grundzüge der Botanik für Pharmazeuten'', published 1921 * ''Lehrbuch der Pharmakognosie''
Digital edition
published 1905
2nd edition
published 1910; 3rd edition published 1922 Over the course of his life, Gilg was binomial author or co-author of many species of plants.IPNI
List of plants described or co-described by Gilg He named 42 species, subspecies, and sub-families of various grasses.

References

External links

Ernest Gilg at IPNI.org
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gilg, Friedrich 20th-century German botanists 1867 births 1933 deaths 19th-century German botanists Scientists from Baden-Württemberg