Otto Karl Berg

Otto Karl Berg
Born	1815 Stettin, German Confederation
Died	1866 Berlin, German Confederation
Nationality	German
Fields	Botanist
Institutions	University of Berlin

Otto Karl Berg (August 18, 1815 in Stettin – November 20, 1866 in Berlin) was a German botanist and pharmacist. The official abbreviation of his name, in botany, is O. Berg.

He was the son of Johann Friedrich and Wilhelmine Friederike Berg. He studied in Berlin and married in 1848, Caroline Albertine Florentine Witthaus, with whom he had six children.

He joined the faculty of Botany and Pharmacology at the University of Berlin in 1849. In 1862 he was appointed associate professor. Helped to make an independent discipline of pharmacology. He also specialized in South American flora.

Works

• Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Botanik. 1845
• Charakteristik der für die Arzneikunde und Technik wichtigsten Pflanzengenera in Illustrationen nebst erläuterndem Text. 1848 (Digital edition from 1845 by the University and State Library Düsseldorf)
• Handbuch der pharmaceutischen Botanik. Band 1: Botanik . Nitze, Berlin 2. Aufl. 1850 Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• with Carl Friedrich Schmidt (1811–1890), Darstellung und Beschreibung sämtlicher in den Pharmacopoea Borussica aufgeführten offizinellen Gewächse. 1853
• Revision Myrtacearum Americae hucusque cognitarum. 1855
• Flora Brasiliensis Myrtographia.... 1855
• Pharmazeutische Warenkunde. 1863 Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• Anatomischer Atlas zur pharmazeutischen Warenkunde. 1865
• Die Chinarinden der pharmakognostischen Sammlung. 1865
• Atlas der officinellen Pflanzen . Vol.1-4 . Felix, Leipzig 2nd ed. 1893-1902 Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf

References

1. "Author Query for 'O.Berg'". International Plant Names Index.