Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling
Grave of Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling in Göttingen
Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (December 9, 1798 – November 20, 1875) was a German botanist who was a native of Hanover.
He studied natural sciences at the University of Göttingen, and in 1818 took a botanical journey through Hungary and Croatia. In 1822 he became a lecturer at Göttingen, where he later became a professor. In 1837 he was appointed director of its botanical garden.
The plant genus Bartlingia from the family Rubiaceae is named in his honor.[1]
Selected publications
- De litoribus ac insulis maris Liburnici (1820).
- Ordines naturales plantarum (1830).
- Flora der österreichischen Küstenländer, (Flora of the Austrian coastal area), (1825).
- Vegetabilia cellularia in Germania septentrionale praesertim in Hercynia et in agro Gottingensi (1834 and 1836), with Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe (1795–1880).
References
- Parts of this article are based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.
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