Johannes Flüggé

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Johannes (Johann) Flüggé (22 June 1775 – 28 June 1816) was a German

botanist and physician who was a native of Hamburg. He undertook botanical excursions from 1792 to Heligoland and Neuwerk.[1]

He studied medicine and

University of Erlangen
. Afterwards he undertook further botanical excursions throughout Germany and France.

In 1810 Flüggé established the first botanical garden in Hamburg.[2][1] He is remembered for his research of grasses in the genus Paspalum.[3] The plant genus Flueggea from the family Phyllanthaceae is named in his honor.[4] In 1810, he published the monograph Graminum Monographiae. Pars 1, Paspalum, Reimaria.[5]

Johannes Flügge had been married to Karoline Auguste Preller since 1811.[6] Their son August died on 3 December 1839 in the district of Schleswig. A diary with entries on his trip to France, among other things, is in the library of the Botanical Garden in Hamburg. Flügge's brother Benedict Gilbert (1777-1821) was a merchant and wine merchant (from 1804 in Kiel and also in Bordeaux).[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "Work of an important botanist, once thought lost, potentially uncovered in our collections". tepapafoundation.org.nz. March 2021. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
  2. ^ Google Books Botanische Zeitung, Volume 55
  3. ^ IPNI List of plants described & co-described by Flüggé.
  4. ^ Trees and Shrubs of Mpumalanga and Kruger National Park by Ernst Schmidt, Mervyn Lotter, Warren McCleland
  5. ^ OCLC WorldCat Graminum monographiae. Pars I, Paspalus. Riemaria
  6. ^ "Allgemeine Grundsätze", Einkommensteuergesetz, De Gruyter, pp. 9–9, 1946-12-31, retrieved 2023-05-08
  7. , retrieved 2023-05-08
  8. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Flüggé.