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Moritz, Johann Wilhelm Karl (1797-1866)

Date Updated: 19 April 2013

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Johann Wilhelm Karl
Last name
Moritz
Initials
J.W.K.
Life Dates
1797 - 1866
Collecting Dates
1834 - 1866
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Bryophytes Fungi Pteridophytes Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
BM (main), HAL (main), B, BR, C, CN, E, F, G, G-DC, GH, HBG, K, KIEL, L, LE, LZ, M, MANCH, MEDEL, MO, NY, O, P, RI, U, US, VT, W
Countries
Tropical South America: Colombia, VenezuelaCentral American Continent: MexicoCaribbean region: Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands (USA)
Associate(s)
Moritz, K. (synonym)
Biography
German naturalist and explorer. Karl Moritz was a private tutor from Saxony who had trained in theology. In 1834 he travelled to the West Indies and from there to Venezuela, where he collected from the northern parts of the country to the Orinoco and Apure rivers, returning to Berlin in 1837 with a large collection of animals and plants for the museum and botanical garden.

Sources:
J. Ewan, 1950, American Fern Journal, 40(1): 101-118
A. Lasèue, 1845, Musée de M. Benjamin Delessert: 482.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 437; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 47; Knobloch, I.W., Phytologia Mem. 6 (1983): 66; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. M (1976): 558;
Moritz, Johann Wilhelm Karl (1797-1866)
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