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Gleditsch, Johann Gottlieb (1714-1786)

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 Gottlieb
Last name
Gleditsch
Initials
J.G.
Life Dates
1714 - 1786
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Spermatophytes Fungi Pteridophytes
Organisation(s)
B, LINN
Countries
Europe: Germany
Biography
German botanist in Berlin. Johann Gleditsch was born in Liepzig and studied in Frankfurt (Oder) where he obtained his doctorate. Working as a professor of botany and silviculture at the University of Berlin, he is most famous for his work on plant reproduction, particularly concentrating on crop plants. In this way Gleditsch was one of the founders of the study of economic botany as we know it. Also involved in a dispute between Carl Linnaeus and J.G. Siegesbeck he published several substantial works, including Methodus Fungorum (1753), Systema Plantarum (1764) and Botanica Medica (1788-1789). Gleditsch died in Berlin in 1786.

Sources:
W. Junk, 1926, Portraits of old Botanists.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): ; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. E-H (1957): ; Stafleu, F.A. & Cowan, R.S., Taxon. Lit., ed. 2, 1 (1976): ;
Gleditsch, Johann Gottlieb (1714-1786)
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