Andreas Voss (botanist) explained

Andreas Voss (12 March 1857 – 9 April 1924) was a German botanist and horticulturist.

From 1878 to 1882 he worked as a gardener at the agricultural school in Hildesheim. From 1890 onward, he worked as an independent author.^[1] He was editor of the horticultural publication Der Deutsche Gartenrat.

He was the author of a popular botanical dictionary for gardeners, titled Botanisches Hilfs- und Wörterbuch (6th edition, 1922).^[2] He also edited the third edition of Vilmorin's Blumengärtnerei (1896).^[3] Other noted works by Voss include:

• Gründzüge der Gartenkultur; Wachstumsbedingungen, Bodenbereitung, Anzucht, Schnitt und Schutz, 1894  - Foundations of garden culture; growth conditions, soil preparation, breeding, cutting and protection.
• Wörterbuch der deutschen pflanzennamen, wild, nutz- und zierpflanzen des freilandes und der gewächshäuser, 1922  - Dictionary of German plant names, wild, useful and ornamental plants of the field and the greenhouses.^[4]

The botanical genus Vossianthus (synonym Sparrmannia) was named after him by Otto Kuntze.^[5]

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212826#page/794/mode/1up BHL
2. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009164880 Botanisches Hilfs- und Wörterbuch für Gärtner
3. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/67392#/summary Vilmorin's Blumengärtnerei
4. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Voss,Andreas.%22&type=author&inst= HathiTrust Digital Library
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=0-lNAAAAYAAJ&dq=Vossianthus+Andreas&pg=PA312 Gartenwelt, Volume 4