Albert Gottfried Dietrich [SEP] date of death
Albert Gottfried Dietrich
Albert Gottfried Dietrich (8 November 1795 – 22 May 1856) was a German botanist born in Danzig.
Dietrich was curator at the Botanical Garden in Berlin and was an instructor at the institute of horticulture at Berlin-Schöneberg. From 1833 to 1856, with Christoph Friedrich Otto (1783–1856), he was publisher of "Allgemeine Gartenzeitung", a newspaper devoted to gardening.
Publications.
- "Terminologie der phanerogamischen Pflanzen…", 1829 - Terminology of phanerogamic plants.
- "Flora
has convinced me of the identity of the genus" (i.e. that it was "Lophospermum" rather than a new genus). Not knowing of Zuccharini's change of name, in 1834 Christoph Friedrich Otto and Albert Gottfried Dietrich published and illustrated "Rhodochiton volubilis". This is taken as the date for the publication of the generic name.
The genus is placed in the tribe Antirrhineae; within this tribe, it is closely related to "Lophospermum", "Maurandya" (including "Maurandella") and "Mabrya