Christian Luerssen

Christian Luerssen (6 May 1843, Bremen – 28 June 1916) was a German botanist. He was an authority in the field of pteridology.

In 1872, at Leipzig, he graduated as a university teacher of botany, and was later appointed professor of botany at the Forest Academy at Neustadt-Eberswalde (1884). From 1888, he served as a professor at the University of Königsberg.[1] After his death, a portion of his botanical collection (including European pteridophytes) was donated by Otto Bjurling to the Swedish Museum of Natural History.[2]

Luerssen was the taxonomic authority of the family Sciadopityaceae (1877).[3] He has a number of plant species named after him, such as Koeleria luerssenii (grass species) and Cassia luerssenii (family Fabaceae).[4][5]

  1. ^ Real-Enzyklopädie der gesamten Pharmazie: Handwörterbuch ..., Volume 8, Part 1 by Josef Moeller
  2. ^ Naturhistoriska riksmuseet Christian Luerssen's herbarium
  3. ^ Paleobiology Database Sciadopityaceae
  4. ^ CRC World Dictionary of Grasses: Common Names, Scientific Names ..., Volume 1 by Umberto Quattrocchi
  5. ^ "Cassia luerssenii". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 21 January 2018.