Otto Karl Berg (15 August 1815 in

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– 20 November 1866 in Berlin) was a German

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and

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. The official abbreviation of his name, in botany, is O. Berg. He was the son of Johann Friedrich and Wilhelmine Friederike Berg. He studied pharmaceutical botany at the

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and published his first ''Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Botanik'' ("Handbook on Pharmaceutical Botany") as he graduated in 1845. In 1848, he married Caroline Albertine Florentine Witthaus, with whom he had six children. He joined the faculty of Botany and Pharmacology at the

in 1849, where he specialized in

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flora. In 1862 he was appointed associate professor, and during his time in that position, he helped to make an independent discipline of pharmacology.

Works

* ''Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Botanik''. 1845 * ''Charakteristik der für die Arzneikunde und Technik wichtigsten Pflanzengenera in Illustrationen nebst erläuterndem Text''. 1848
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) * ''Handbuch der pharmaceutischen Botanik. Band 1: Botanik'' . Nitze, Berlin 2. Aufl. 185
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* with Carl Friedrich Schmidt (1811–1890), ''Darstellung und Beschreibung sämtlicher in den Pharmacopoea Borussica aufgeführten offizinellen Gewächse''. 1853 * ''Revisio Myrtacearum Americae hucusque cognitarum''. 1855 * ''Flora Brasiliensis Myrtographia...''. 1855 * ''Pharmazeutische Warenkunde''. 186
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* ''Anatomischer Atlas zur pharmazeutischen Warenkunde''. 1865 * ''Die Chinarinden der pharmakognostischen Sammlung''. 1865 * ''Atlas der officinellen Pflanzen'' . Vol.1–4 . Felix, Leipzig 2nd ed. 1893–190
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References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Berg, Otto Karl German taxonomists 1815 births 1866 deaths Biologists from the Kingdom of Prussia German pharmacists Humboldt University of Berlin alumni Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin 19th-century German botanists