Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst [SEP] place of death
Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst
Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst (born March 22, 1806 in Treuenbrietzen; died April 24, 1881 in Meissen) was a German botanist and mycologist.
He was a student in Berlin and Belzig from 1822 to 1830, a pharmacist in Luckau until 1840, and received his doctorate in Jena in 1841. From 1840 he lived in Dresden, relocating to nearby Meissen in 1875, where he died several years later.
Renowned for his research of cryptogamic flora native to central Europe, his name is associated with
and mushroom collector, whose collection is currently housed at the Botanical State Collection Munich. He was regarded as an expert in the flora of Moravia and Silesia, and had close contact with the botanist Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst.
Two fungal species were named after him. He was particularly concerned with microscopic sac fungi, slime molds, and rusts.
From 1904 until his death, he was a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He was also a member of the Austrian Commission for International Geodesy and the Austrian Patent