Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten

Hermann Karsten, 1894

Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (6 November 1817, in Stralsund – 10 July 1908, in Zoppot) was a German botanist and geologist.

Born in Stralsund, he followed the example of Alexander von Humboldt and traveled 1844-56 the northern part of South America (Venezuela, Ecuador and Colombia). From 1856 to 1868, he was a professor at the agricultural college in Berlin, afterwards serving as a professor of plant physiology at the University of Vienna (1868–72).^[1] He died 1908 in Berlin-Grunewald.

As a taxonomist, he was the binomial author of many botanical species.^[2]

Selected bibliography

• Florae Columbiae ... 1859-1869. (Vol. 1: Digital edition / Vol. 2: Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf)
• Chemismus der Pflanzenzelle 1869.
• Deutsche Flora. Pharmaceutisch-medicinische Botanik 1880-1883; second edition 1894–1895.

References

1. © Universität Zürich, Zürcher Herbarien short biography
2. IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Karsten.
3. "Author Query for 'H.Karst.'". International Plant Names Index.

External links

• Florae Columbiae :terrarumque adiacentium specimina selecta in peregrinatione duodecim annorum observata: delineavit et descripsit H. Karsten at the Biodiversity Heritage library