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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Born
Nov 4, 1742
Holderbank, Aargau
Also known as
  • Эрхарт, Якоб Фридрих
Nationality
  • Germany
  • Switzerland
Profession
Education
  • Uppsala University
Died
Jun 26, 1795
Hanover

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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