Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten

Short description: German botanist and geologist

Hermann Karsten, 1894

Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (6 November 1817, in Stralsund – 10 July 1908, in Zoppot) was a German botanist and geologist.

## Contents

* 1 Biography
* 2 Selected bibliography
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Biography

Born in Stralsund, he followed the example of Alexander von Humboldt and traveled 1844-56 the northern part of South America (Venezuela, Ecuador and Colombia). From 1856 to 1868, he was a professor at the agricultural college in Berlin, afterwards serving as a professor of plant physiology at the University of Vienna (1868–72).[1] In 1881, at the suggestion of David Friedrich Weinland, Karsten became convinced of the correctness of Otto Hahn's organic theory of the chondrites and, as a result, wrote an essay entitled "Die Meteorite und ihre Organismen"[2] in which he declared his support for Hahn's theory. He died 1908 in Berlin-Grunewald.

As a taxonomist, he was the binomial author of many botanical species.[3]

## Selected bibliography

* Florae Columbiae ... 1859–1869. (Vol. 1: Digital edition / Vol. 2: Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf)
* Chemismus der Pflanzenzelle 1869.
* Deutsche Flora. Pharmaceutisch-medicinische Botanik 1880-1883; second edition 1894–1895.
* "Hermann Karsten (1851) y Wilhelm Sievers (1888): las primeras descripciones e interpretaciones sobre el órigen de las terrazas aluviales en la Córdillera de Mérida." C. Schubert. Bol. Hist. Geocien. Venez., 44, pp 15–19
* "Die Meteorite und ihre Organismen", 1881 - The Meteorite and its Organisms.[4]

The standard author abbreviation H.Karst. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]

## References

1. ↑ © Universität Zürich, Zürcher Herbarien short biography
2. ↑ http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/249495308 WorldCat permalink
3. ↑ IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Karsten.
4. ↑ https://archive.org/details/the-meteorite-and-its-organisms archive.org English translation
5. ↑ IPNI, H.Karst., http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advAuthorSearch.do?find_abbreviation=H.Karst.

## External links

* Florae Columbiae :terrarumque adiacentium specimina selecta in peregrinatione duodecim annorum observata: delineavit et descripsit H. Karsten at the Biodiversity Heritage library

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