August Wilhelm Dennstedt

German physician and botanist

August Wilhelm Dennstedt

Scientific career
Fields| Botany

August Wilhelm Dennstedt (1776–1826), surname sometimes spelled Dennstaedt,[1] was a German physician and botanist who was bürgermeister of Magdala, a town near Weimar. From 1817 he was scientific director of the Grand Ducal Garden in Belvedere.[2][3]

He was the taxonomic author of numerous botanical taxa; three examples being the genera Bruxanelia, Coulejia and Merremia. He entered many of his taxonomic findings in the register "Schlüssel zum Hortus indicus malabaricus".[4] The genus Dennstaedtia Bernh. (family Dennstaedtiaceae) is named in his honor.[5]

The standard author abbreviation Dennst. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]

## Published works

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* Weimar's Flora: Pflanzen mit deutlichen Geschlechtern, Volume 1, 1800.
* Pflanzen mit Luftgefäßen, 1807.
* Nomenclator botanicus: seu, Enumeratio alphabetica omnium hucusque cognitorum vegetabilium, adjectis praecipuis synonymis, 1810.
* Das Gewächsreich: oder characterisirende Beschreibung aller zur Zeit bekannten Gewächse.
* Hortus Belvedereanus. Oder Verzeichniss der bestimmten Pflanzen, 1820.[7]

## References

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1. ^ Dennstedt, August Wilhelm Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries
2. ^ Goethes Werke, Part 3 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3. ^ Zeno.org Goethes Gespräche. Herausgegeben von Woldemar Freiherr von Biedermann, Band 1–10, Leipzig 1889–1896, Band 10.
4. ^ IPNI List of botanical taxa described by Dennstedt
5. ^ CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific ..., Volume 2 by Umberto Quattrocchi
6. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Dennst.
7. ^ Google Search published works

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF
* WorldCat

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* Germany
* United States
* Netherlands

Academics|

* International Plant Names Index

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* DDB

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