Albert Gottfried Dietrich (8 November 1795 – 22 May 1856) was a German

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

born in Danzig. Dietrich was

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at the Botanical Garden in Berlin and was an instructor at the institute of

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at Berlin-Schöneberg. From 1833 to 1856, with Christoph Friedrich Otto (1783–1856), he was publisher of ''Allgemeine Gartenzeitung'', a newspaper devoted to

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Publications

* ''Terminologie der phanerogamischen Pflanzen…'', 1829 - Terminology of phanerogamic plants. * ''Flora regni borussici : flora des Königreichs Preussen oder Abbildung und Beschreibung der in Preussen wildwachsenden Pflanzen''; published 1833 by Verlag von Ludwig Ochmigke in Berlin, the

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section (hefts and plates 373–396) are by

Johann Friedrich Klotzsch Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (9 June 1805 – 5 November 1860) was a German pharmacist and botanist. His principal work was in the field of mycology, with the study and description of many species of mushroom. Klotzsch was born in Wittenberg. Origi ...

. * ''Allgemeine Naturgeschichte und specielle Zoologie für Pharmaceuten und Mediciner'', 184
Digital edition
by the

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List of plants described & co-described by Dietrich. 20th-century German botanists Scientists from Gdańsk 1795 births 1856 deaths Botanists from the Kingdom of Prussia 19th-century German botanists {{Germany-botanist-stub