Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling

Grave of Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling in Göttingen

Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (December 9, 1798 – November 20, 1875) was a German botanist who was a native of Hanover.

He studied natural sciences at the University of Göttingen, and in 1818 took a botanical journey through Hungary and Croatia. In 1822 he became a lecturer at Göttingen, where he later became a professor. In 1837 he was appointed director of its botanical garden.^[1]

The plant genus Bartlingia from the family Rubiaceae is named in his honor.^[2]

Selected publications

• De litoribus ac insulis maris Liburnici (1820).
• Ordines naturales plantarum (1830).
• Flora der österreichischen Küstenländer, (Flora of the Austrian coastal area), (1825).
• Vegetabilia cellularia in Germania septentrionale praesertim in Hercynia et in agro Gottingensi (1834 and 1836), with Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe (1795–1880).

References

1. Bartling, Friedrich Georg (Gottlieb) at Deutsche Biographie
2. CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific ..., Volume 1 By Umberto Quattrocchi
3. "Author Query for 'Bartl.'". International Plant Names Index.

• Parts of this article are based on a translation of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.