Otto Gelert
Otto Christian Leonor Gelert (9 November 1862 in Nybøl on Sundeved peninsula – 20 March 1899 in Copenhagen) was a Danish pharmacist and botanist, who specialized in plant floristics and systematics. He was a brother of sculptor Johannes Gelert.
In 1883 he received his degree in pharmacy and subsequently worked as a druggist in the communities of Ribe and Horsens. From 1894 he worked as chemist at a sugar refinery in Tangermünde, Germany.[1] During the latter part of his career he worked at the botanical museum in Copenhagen. In 1897 he took a scientific excursion to the Canary Islands. In 1899 he died of tuberculosis in Copenhagen, aged 36.[2][3]
Plants with the specific epithet of gelertii commemorate his name, and example being Taraxacum gelertii.[4]
Published works
- Danmarks og Slesvigs Rubi, (with Kristian Friderichsen), 1887 – Danish and Schleswig Rubus.
- Studier over Slægten Batrachium, 1896 – Studies of the genus Batrachium.
- "Notes on Arctic Plants", in: Botanisk Tidsskrift, vol. 21, 1898.[2]
- "Flora arctica, containing descriptions of the flowering plants and ferns found in the Arctic regions, with their distribution in these countries", 1902 (edited by Carl Hansen Ostenfeld).
References
- Botanisches Centralblatt
- Salmonsens konversationsleksikon (biography).
- BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
- Flora of Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 4, Campanulaceae - Asteraceae by Peter Sell, Gina Murrell
- IPNI. Gelert.
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