Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter

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Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter (February 16, 1787 - February 20, 1860) was a German botanist and Protestant minister who was a native of Stuttgart. He was the father of geologist Ferdinand Hochstetter (1829-1884).

In 1807 Hochstetter received his degree of Master of Divinity in Tübingen. While still a student he became a member of a secret organization headed by Carl Ludwig Reichenbach (1788-1869) that had designs on establishing a colony on Tahiti (Otaheiti-Gesellschaft). In 1808 the organization was discovered by authorities, and its members suspected of treason and arrested. Hochstetter was imprisoned for a short period of time for his small role in the secret society.

Later he spent six months as a teacher in a private institution in Erlangen, and afterwards was a tutor for 4 years in the house of the Minister of Altenstein. In 1816 he became a pastor and school inspector in Brno, and in 1824 moved to Esslingen am Neckar, where he became an instructor at the seminary school, and in 1829 a pastor at Esslingen.

Hochstetter published numerous writings on botany, mineralogy and natural history, as well as on theology and education. With Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel (1783-1856) he published a book covering botanical species of Germany and Switzerland called Enumeratio plantarum Germaniae Helvetiaeque indigenarum, and with Moritz August Seubert (1818-1878) he published Flora Azorica, a treatise on the flora of the Azores.

The botanical genus Hochstetteria of the family Asteraceae is named after him.

The standard author abbreviation Hochst. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]

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