Carl August Julius Milde

Carl August Julius Milde (2 November 1824 - 3 July 1871) was a German bryologist and pteridologist who was a native of Breslau.

In 1850 he obtained his medical doctorate from the University of Breslau, where he was a student of Heinrich Göppert (1800-1884). From 1853 he was an Oberlehrer at a Realschule in Breslau.

Milde specialized in research of cryptogams, particularly mosses and ferns. The botanical genus Mildella from the family Pteridaceae is named in his honor. In 1876 American botanical artist Charles Edward Faxon (1846-1918) published a translation of Milde's Botrychiorum Monographia. Other written works of his include:

Die höheren Sporenpflanzen Deutschland's und der Schweiz, (The Higher Spore Plants of Germany and Switzerland), 1865
Bryologia silesiaca, (Silesian Bryology), 1869

Milde suffered from respiratory ailments for most of his adult life, and died at the age of 46 in Meran, location of a popular spa that he sometimes visited for treatment.

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

References

This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.
Harvard University Library Faxon's Translations of Julius Milde's "Botrychiorum monographia"

^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do.

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Name	Milde, Carl August Julius
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Date of birth	2 November 1824
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Date of death	3 July 1871
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