Holst, Carl Hugo Ehrenfried Wilhelm (1865-1894)

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Carl Hugo Ehrenfried Wilhelm
Last name
Holst
Initials
C.H.E.W.
Life Dates
1865 - 1892
Collecting Dates
1891 - 1893
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae
Bryophytes
Fungi
Pteridophytes
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
B (main), BM, BR, C, COI, H, HBG, JE, K, L, LE, M, P, PC, S, US, W, WRSL
Countries
Tropical Africa: Sao Tome and Principe, Tanzania
Biography
German gardener who collected a wide range of plants in East Africa in 1891-1893, which were cited in A. Engler's Pflanzenwelt Ost-Afrikas under der Nachbargebiete (1895). Carl Holst was born in Flensburg in 1865 and worked as a gardener in Potsdam from 1883. In 1891 he travelled to Tanzania to work at a mission station in the Usambara Mountains, where he made significant botanical collections of more than 5,000 specimens, sent to Adolf Engler in Berlin. He died at Dar-es-Salaam in May 1894.

Sources:
Anon, 1893, Gartenflora, 43: 533-534
J.H. Barnhart, 1965, Biographical Notes Upon Botanists, 2: 196
G. Sayre, 1975, "Cryptogamae Exsiccatae: an annotated bibliography of exsiccatae of algae, lichens, hepaticae, and musci. V. Unpublished Exsiccatae: I. Collectors", Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, 19(3): 341.
References
Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 32; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. E-H (1957): 283;
Holst, Carl Hugo Ehrenfried Wilhelm (1865-1894)
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