Julius von Flotow

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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 born in the village of Pitzerwitz (Polish-Pstrowice) in the region of Neumark.

In 1813, he suffered a serious war-related injury, from which he never fully recovered. During a military campaign in France (1819), he took the opportunity to study lichens native to the Ardennes Mountains.^[1] In 1832 he took an early retirement from the military and worked as a private scholar in Hirschberg. 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.^[2]

References

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

↑ SCHLECHTENDALIA 23 Lichenology in Germany: past, present and future
↑ [http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advAuthorSearch.do?find_abbreviation=Flot. "Author Query for 'Flot.'"]. International Plant Names Index.

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Name	Flotow, Julius von
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Short description	German lichenologist
Date of birth	1788
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Date of death	1856
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