Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (December 9, 1798 – November 20, 1875) was a German
botanist
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who was a native of
Hanover
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He studied
natural sciences
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at the
University of Göttingen
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, and in 1818 took a botanical journey through
Hungary
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and
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. In 1822 he became a lecturer at
Göttingen
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, where he later became a professor. In 1837 he was appointed director of its
botanical garden
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.
The plant genus ''
Bartlingia'' from the family
Rubiaceae is named in his honor.
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By Umberto Quattrocchi
Selected publications
* ''De litoribus ac insulis maris Liburnici'' (1820).
* ''Ordines naturales plantarum'' (1830).
* ''Flora der österreichischen Küstenländer'', (Flora of the Austrian coastal area), (1825).
* ''Vegetabilia cellularia in Germania septentrionali praesertim in Hercynia et in agro Gottingensi lecta'' (1834 and 1836), with Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe (1795–1880).
References
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19th-century German botanists
Scientists from Hanover
University of Göttingen faculty
1798 births
1875 deaths
Members of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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