Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart
Botanist, Deceased Person
1742 – 1795
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Who was Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart?
Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart was a German botanist, a pupil of Carolus Linnaeus at Uppsala University, and later director of the Botanical Garden of Hannover, where he produced several major botanical works between 1780–1793. Ehrhart was the first author to use the rank of subspecies in botanical literature, and he published many subspecific names between 1780 and 1789.
In 1779, Carl Peter Thunberg named a genus of grasses, Ehrharta, in Ehrhart's honor.
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