Christoph Friedrich Otto

Christoph Friedrich Otto (born December 4, 1783 in Schneeberg , † September 7, 1856 in Berlin ) was a German gardener and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Otto ".

Life

From 1805 to 1843 Otto was inspector of the Royal Botanical Garden in Berlin-Schöneberg , the predecessor of the Berlin Botanical Garden . Together with Albert Gottfried Dietrich , he was the publisher of the Allgemeine Gartenzeitung from 1833 to 1856 .

His son, Eduard Otto (1812–1885), was also a botanist and editor of the Neue Allgemeine Garten- und Blumenzeitung , which was continued after seven editions in 1851 with the Hamburger Garten- und Blumenzeitung .

Honors

The plant genera Ottoa Kunth from the umbelliferae family (Apiaceae) and Ottonia Spreng. from the Piperaceae family have been named after him.

Works (selection)

Illustration of the foreign species of wood that persist in Germany , 1819–1830 (together with Friedrich Guimpel and Friedrich Gottlob Hayne )

with Heinrich Friedrich Link : Illustrations of exquisite plants in the royal botanical garden , 1820–1828

with Heinrich Friedrich Link: Images of new and rare plants ... , 1828–1831

with Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer : Illustration and description of blooming cacti , 1838–1850, Theodor Fischer, Cassel, 1843

with Heinrich Friedrich Link and Johann Friedrich Klotzsch : Icocnes plantarum rariorum horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis - images of rare plants from the Royal Botanical Garden ... , Veit and Co, Berlin. Digitized 1st volume, 1841 a . Digitized 2nd volume, 1844

literature

Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
Obituary. In: Hamburg garden and flower newspaper . 12th year, Robert Kittler, Hamburg 1856, p. 470ff.

Individual evidence

^ Obituary dated September 13, 1856. In: Allgemeine Gartenzeitung . Jg. 24, 1856, pp. 289-291 (digitized version ) .

↑ full name Carl Friedrich Eduard Otto. For many years he was the technical director of the Botanical Garden in Hamburg . Nekrolog: Edmund Goeze: Garden Inspector Eduard Otto. In: Hamburger Garten- und Blumenzeitung , 41st year, 1885, p. 472ff.

↑ Entry at GRIN

↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

Web links

Wikisource: Allgemeine Gartenzeitung - Sources and full texts

Author entry and list of the described plant names for Christoph Friedrich Otto at the IPNI

personal data
SURNAME	Otto, Christoph Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German gardener and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 4, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schneeberg
DATE OF DEATH	September 7, 1856
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Obituary dated September 13, 1856. In: Allgemeine Gartenzeitung . Jg. 24, 1856, pp. 289-291 (digitized version ) .

[2] ull name Carl Friedrich Eduard Otto. For many years he was the technical director of the Botanical Garden in Hamburg . Nekrolog: Edmund Goeze: Garden Inspector Eduard Otto. In: Hamburger Garten- und Blumenzeitung , 41st year, 1885, p. 472ff.

[3] Entry at GRIN

[Burkhardt_2018-4] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .