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Günther Ritter Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau was a prominent Austrian botanist.
Hans Molisch was a Czech-Austrian botanist.
Otto Eugen Schulz was a German botanist, born in Berlin. He was the brother of botanist Roman Schulz (1873-1926).
Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1840–1925) was a German botanist and botanical artist from Cologne best known for his compendium of botanical illustrations Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz in Wort und Bild für Schule und Haus first of 4 volumes with a total of 572 botanical illustrations, published in 1885 in Gera, Germany. Another 8 volumes were added to the set by Walter Migula with the republication in 1903.
From 1897 to 1899, he was the Headmaster of the Business School Cologne.
Count Friedrich Carl Eugen Vsemir von Berchtold, baron von Ungarschitz, was a German-speaking Bohemian physician and botanist from Austrian descent.
Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer, was a Bavarian taxonomist and botanist.
Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter was a German botanist and Protestant minister born in Stuttgart. He was the father of geologist Ferdinand Hochstetter (1829–1884).
Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer was a German botanist and botanical historian. Born in Hanover, he lectured in Göttingen and in 1826 became a professor of botany at the University of Königsberg, as well as Director of the Botanical Garden. His botanical specialty was the Juncaceae, or family of rushes. His major work was the four-volume Geschichte der Botanik. His history covered ancient authorities such as Aristotle and Theophrastus, explored the beginnings of modern botany in the context of 15th- and 16th-century intellectual practice, and offered a wealth of biographical data on early modern botanists. Julius von Sachs pronounced him “no great botanist” but admitted that he “possessed a clever and cultivated intellect.”
Georg Heinrich Mettenius was a German botanist born in Frankfurt am Main. He was son-in-law to botanist Alexander Braun (1805–1877).
Julianne E. Ortman is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota, she represented District 47, which included portions of Carver County in the southwestern Twin Cities metropolitan area. She was a candidate in the 2014 United States Senate election in Minnesota until she was eliminated at the state convention.
Theodor Carl (Karl) Julius Herzog was a German bryologist and phytogeographer. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Herz. when citing a botanical name.
Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser was an Austrian-born botanist who worked most of his life within the territory of western Ukraine.
Heinrich Raphael Eduard Freiherr von Handel-Mazzetti was an Austrian botanist best known for his many publications on the flora of China and botanical explorations of that country. He was the cousin of novelist Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti (1871-1955).
Georg Carl Wilhelm Vatke was a German botanist who collected spermatophytes during 1868–1876 in Austria, Germany, Madagascar and Angola. He was an assistant at the botanical gardens in Berlin during 1876–1879, and later became a private scholar.
Harley Harris Bartlett was an American botanist, biochemist, and anthropologist. He was an expert in tropical botany and an authority on Batak language and culture. The standard author abbreviation Bartlett is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
