Otto Karl Berg

Otto Karl Berg , also Otto Carl Berg (born August 18, 1815 in Stettin , † November 20, 1866 in Berlin ) was a German botanist and pharmacognostic . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " O.Berg "; earlier the abbreviation " OCBerg " was also in use.

Live and act

Berg was born the son of a doctor in Szczecin . After the death of his parents he came to Demmin as an apprentice pharmacist . In 1838 he went to Berlin to study pharmaceuticals , which he finished after two semesters with an exam. He caught up with the Abitur and began studying at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin in 1842 , where he was awarded a Dr. phil. received his doctorate and habilitated in botany and pharmacognosy in 1849 . In 1848 he married Caroline Albertine Florentine Witthaus, with whom he had six children.

In Berlin he became a private lecturer in 1850 , a member of the senior examination commission in 1856 and an associate professor in 1862 . Berg is considered one of the greatest pharmacognostics of his time and the founder of pharmacoanatomy. In botany, Berg mainly dealt with medicinal plants. In addition, the myrtle family was one of his research areas. Some of the first descriptions come from him, such as Orthostemon sellowianus, later renamed Acca sellowiana ( Brazilian guava ) by Carl Burret in 1856 .

Berg died of a lung disease in 1866.

Fonts

• Handbook of Pharmaceutical Botany (1845)
• Handbook of Pharmaceutical Botany Nitze, Berlin 2nd edition. 1850 Digitized edition of the University and State Library of Düsseldorf
  • 2nd edition. Nitze, Berlin 1850 Volume 1 as a digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• Characteristics of the most important plant generations for pharmacology and technology in illustrations and explanatory text . Plahn, Berlin 1845 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• Together with Carl Friedrich Schmidt (1811–1890): Representation and description of all the officinal plants listed in the Pharmacopoea Borussica (1853)
• Revisio Myrtacearum Americae hue usque cognitarum s. Kloizschii "Flora Americae aequinoetialis" exhibens Myriaceas . In: Linnaea. A journal for botany in its entirety . tape 27 , 1854, pp. 1-472 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
• Revision Myrtacearum Americae hucusque cognitarum (1855)
• Flora Brasiliensis Myrtographia ... (1855)
• Pharmaceutical merchandise . Gaertner, Berlin 1857 -
  • 1. Pharmacognosy of the Plant Kingdom. 3., completely redesigned. and probably edition 1863
  • 2. Pharmacognosy of the animal kingdom. 1858
• Pharmacognosy of the Plant and Animal Kingdom . Gaertner, Berlin 5th ed. / Revised. by August Garcke, 1879 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• Anatomical atlas for pharmaceutical product knowledge (1865)
• The cinchona bark of the pharmacognostic collection (1865)
• Atlas of officinal plants: Representation and description of the plants mentioned in the pharmacopoeia for the German rich Felix, Leipzig 1893 ( digitized )
  • 4. The monocotyledons, gymnosperms and cryptogams. 1902

literature

• Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names. Edited by Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
• Manfred Stürzbecher :  Berg, Otto Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 76 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 58–59.

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto Karl Berg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author entry and list of the plant names described for Otto Karl Berg at the IPNI