Justus Ferdinand Poggenburg I (May 20, 1840–December 16, 1893) was a German born American botanist. Poggenburg was born in Holtum, today part of

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in the district of

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. He was married with Mary Catherine Franckhauser (ca. 1841–1905), their son Justus Ferdinand Poggenburg II was a billiards champion, also like their grandson Justus Ferdinand Poggenburg III. Together with

Nathaniel Lord Britton Nathaniel Lord Britton (January 15, 1859 – June 25, 1934) was an American botanist and taxonomist who co-founded the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York (state), New York. Early life Britton was born in New Dorp, Staten Island, New ...

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and three others, Poggenburg was the author of a catalogue of plants of the New York region that applied the

principle of priority 270px, '' valid name. Priority is a fundamental principle of modern botanical nomenclature and zoological nomenclature. Essentially, it is the principle of recognising the first valid application of a name to a plant or animal. There are two asp ...

more strictly than had been done before, and so caused a rift between American and European botanists. The standard author abbreviation for Poggenburg when citing a

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is Poggenb., and Poggenburg is also included alongside Britton and Sterns in the joint abbreviation "B.S.P.". He died, aged 53, in New York on December 16, 1893.

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