Julius von Flotow

Julius von Flotow; full name- Julius Christian Gottlieb Ulrich Gustav Georg Adam Ernst Friedrich von Flotow (March 9, 1788- August 15, 1856) was a German military officer and lichenologist who was born in the village of Pitzerwitz (Polish-Pstrowice) in the region of Neumark.

Due to a serious war-related injury, Flotow took an early retirement from the military and worked as a private scholar in Hirschberg. He specialized in research of lichens. Among his written works are the following:

Reisebericht über eine Excursion nach einem Theile des südöstlichen Riesengebirges (1836)
Über Haematococcus Pluvialis (1844)
Lichenes Florae Silesiae (1849-1850)

In 1856 he was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Breslau. The genus Flotovia from the botanical family Asteraceae is named in his honor.

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

References

University of Gottingen, Search the Index Collectorum
[1] translated biography @ Brockhaus Encyclopedic Dictionary

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

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Name	Flotow, Julius von
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Date of birth	1788
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Date of death	1856
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