Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst (22 March 1806 – 24 April 1881) was a German
botanist and
mycologist.
Biography
Rabenhorst was born in
Treuenbrietzen. He studied in Berlin and
Belzig from 1822 to 1830, worked as a pharmacist in
Luckau until 1840, and received his doctorate in
Jena in 1841. From 1840, he lived in
Dresden, relocating to nearby
Meissen in 1875, where he died aged 75.
Renowned for his research of
cryptogamic flora native to central Europe, his name is associated with Dr. L. Rabenhorst's Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz.[1][2] Rabenhorst edited the scientific journal Hedwigia from 1852 to 1878.[3] With
Alexander Braun (1805–1877) and
Ernst Stizenberger (1827–1895), he was editor of the
exsiccata work Die Characeen Europas.[4]
Rabenhorst, L. G. Deutschlands Kryptogamen-Flora oder Handbuch zur Bestimmung der kryptogamischen Gewächse Deutschlands, der Schweiz, des Lombardisch-Venetianischen Königreich und Istriens. Leipzig: E. Kummer. 1844–1848.
C. Bl. (1881).
"Nekrolog: Dr. Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst". Sitzungsberichte und Abhandlungen der Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Isis: 35–38. Archived from
the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst (22 March 1806 – 24 April 1881) was a German
botanist and
mycologist.
Biography
Rabenhorst was born in
Treuenbrietzen. He studied in Berlin and
Belzig from 1822 to 1830, worked as a pharmacist in
Luckau until 1840, and received his doctorate in
Jena in 1841. From 1840, he lived in
Dresden, relocating to nearby
Meissen in 1875, where he died aged 75.
Renowned for his research of
cryptogamic flora native to central Europe, his name is associated with Dr. L. Rabenhorst's Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz.[1][2] Rabenhorst edited the scientific journal Hedwigia from 1852 to 1878.[3] With
Alexander Braun (1805–1877) and
Ernst Stizenberger (1827–1895), he was editor of the
exsiccata work Die Characeen Europas.[4]
Rabenhorst, L. G. Deutschlands Kryptogamen-Flora oder Handbuch zur Bestimmung der kryptogamischen Gewächse Deutschlands, der Schweiz, des Lombardisch-Venetianischen Königreich und Istriens. Leipzig: E. Kummer. 1844–1848.
C. Bl. (1881).
"Nekrolog: Dr. Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst". Sitzungsberichte und Abhandlungen der Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Isis: 35–38. Archived from
the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 30 August 2012.