Carl Moritz Gottsche (July 3, 1808 - September 28, 1892) was a German bryologist who was a native of Altona. He is remembered for his work as director of the Botanical Gardens at Hamburg.
Gottsche was a leading authority of Hepaticae. With Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776-1858) and Johann Bernhard Wilhelm Lindenberg (1781-1851), he was author of Synopsis Hepaticarum (1844-47), which was a landmark work in the field of hepaticology.
The botanical genus Gottschea in the family Schistochilaceae is named after him.