Johann Christoph Röhling

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Johann Christoph Röhling (27 April 1757 - 19 December 1813) was a German botanist and clergyman who was a native of Gundernhausen, a town near Darmstadt.

He studied theology in Giessen, and later taught school in Frankfurt am Main. In 1792 he became a pastor in Braubach, and in 1800, a parish priest in Breckenheim.

Röhling was the author of "Deutschlands Flora", an important treatise on German flora, of which the first edition was published in 1796. He also published a work on mosses of Germany titled "Deutschlands Moose" (1800). He was the taxonomic authority of the plant genus Melandrium (family Caryophyllaceae).^[1]

The standard author abbreviation Röhl. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[2]

References

Wikisource translated biography @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

↑ IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Röhling.
↑ [http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advAuthorSearch.do?find_abbreviation=Röhl. "Author Query for 'Röhl.'"]. International Plant Names Index.

Authority control	VIAF: 42269813 ISNI: 0000 0001 1059 3354

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Name	Rohling, Johann Christoph
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Short description	German botanist
Date of birth	27 April 1757
Place of birth
Date of death	19 December 1813
Place of death

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