Carl August Julius Milde (2 November 1824 – 3 July 1871) was a German bryologist and pteridologist born in Breslau.
In 1850 he obtained his medical doctorate from the University of Breslau, where he was a student of Heinrich Göppert (1800–1884). From 1853, he was an Oberlehrer at a Realschule in Breslau.
Milde specialized in research of cryptogams, particularly mosses and ferns. He issued the exsiccata Bryotheca Silesiaca.[1] The botanical genus Mildella from the family Pteridaceae was named in his honor by Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan.[2] In 1876, American botanical artist Charles Edward Faxon (1846–1918) published a translation of Milde's Botrychiorum Monographia. Other written works of his include:
Milde suffered from respiratory ailments for most of his adult life, and died at the age of 46 in Meran, location of a popular spa that he sometimes visited for treatment.