Ernest Friedrich Gilg

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Ernst Friedrich Gilg (born January 12, 1867, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and died October 11, 1933, in Berlin) was a German botanist.

[edit] Life

Gilg was curator of the Botanical Museum in Berlin. In 1921, Gilg, and fellow botanist Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler, co-authored and published two books on botany - "Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien" and "Das Pflanzenreich." The Poaceae grass gilgiochoa was posthumously named after him.

[edit] Work

  • Pharmazeutische Warenkunde, published 1911
  • Grundzüge der Botanik für Pharmazeuten, published 1921
  • Lehrbuch der Pharmakognosie, published 1922

Over the course of his life, Gilg identified and named 42 species, subspecies, and sub-families of various grasses.

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