August Wilhelm Dennstedt (1776–1826), surname sometimes spelled Dennstaedt,[1] was a German physician and botanist who was bürgermeister of Magdala, a town near Weimar. From 1817 he was scientific director of the Grand Ducal Garden in Belvedere.[2][3]
He was the taxonomic author of numerous botanical taxa; three examples being the genera Bruxanelia, Coulejia and Merremia. He entered many of his taxonomic findings in the register "Schlüssel zum Hortus indicus malabaricus".[4] The genus Dennstaedtia Bernh. (family Dennstaedtiaceae) is named in his honor.[5]
The standard author abbreviation Dennst. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]
Published works
edit- Weimar's Flora: Pflanzen mit deutlichen Geschlechtern, Volume 1, 1800.
- Pflanzen mit Luftgefäßen, 1807.
- Nomenclator botanicus: seu, Enumeratio alphabetica omnium hucusque cognitorum vegetabilium, adjectis praecipuis synonymis, 1810.
- Das Gewächsreich: oder characterisirende Beschreibung aller zur Zeit bekannten Gewächse.
- Hortus Belvedereanus. Oder Verzeichniss der bestimmten Pflanzen, 1820.[7]
References
edit- ^ Dennstedt, August Wilhelm Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries
- ^ Goethes Werke, Part 3 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- ^ Zeno.org Goethes Gespräche. Herausgegeben von Woldemar Freiherr von Biedermann, Band 1–10, Leipzig 1889–1896, Band 10.
- ^ IPNI List of botanical taxa described by Dennstedt
- ^ CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific ..., Volume 2 by Umberto Quattrocchi
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Dennst.
- ^ Google Search published works
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