Johann Christian Carl Günther Explained

Johann Christian Carl Günther
Birth Date:10 October 1769
Birth Place:Jauer, Prussian Silesia (Jawor, Poland)
Death Place:Breslau, Prussia
Citizenship:Kingdom of Prussia
Field:Botany
Alma Mater:University of Breslau
Author Abbrev Bot:Günther

Johann Christian Carl Günther (1769 – 1833) was a German botanist, pharmacist, batologist, and author.

With Theodor Emil Schummel he issued the exsiccata Herbarium vivum plantas in Silesia indigenas exhibens a Christiano Günther et Aemilio Schummel collectum et omnibus botanices inprimis Silesiae cultoribus ac amicis dicatum (1811-1830).[1] . With Heinrich Emanuel Grabowski and Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer he distributed an exsiccata-like series of duplicate specimens called Schlesische Gewächse.[2] [3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Herbarium vivum plantas in Silesia indigenas exhibens a Christiano Günther et Aemilio Schummel collectum et omnibus botanices inprimis Silesiae cultoribus ac amicis dicatum: IndExs ExsiccataID=1589597311 . IndExs - Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München . 3 July 2024.
  2. Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.
  3. Web site: Schlesische Gewächse: IndExs ExsiccataID=1402200447 . IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae . Botanische Staatssammlung München . 3 August 2024.