August Wilhelm Dennstedt

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]

  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