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]

Published works

  • 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.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Dennstedt, August Wilhelm Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries
  2. ↑ Goethes Werke, Part 3 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  3. ↑ Zeno.org Goethes Gespräche. Herausgegeben von Woldemar Freiherr von Biedermann, Band 1–10, Leipzig 1889–1896, Band 10.
  4. ↑ IPNI List of botanical taxa described by Dennstedt
  5. ↑ CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific ..., Volume 2 by Umberto Quattrocchi
  6. ↑ Google Search published works
  7. ↑ International Plant Names Index.  Dennst.


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