Carl Ludwig Willdenow

Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765 - 1812)

Back to Author Index

Biography
Selected publications
Species
Genera

Biography

taught privately how to be an apothecary by his father, chemistry by Klaproth, and botany by Gleditsch.

goes to study at the apothecary school in Langensalza, Germany

1785 passes exams to become an apothecary, goes to Halle and studies medicine

1789 earns MD, practices in Berlin

1798 appointed professor of natural history at the royal college of medical surgeons (stay away from the non-medical kind!)

shortly before his death, appointed professor for botany at the newly founded (1810) university of Berlin
Back to top

Selected Publications

Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1787) Florae berolinensis Prodromus

Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1792) "Etwas ueber die Entstehung der Pilze" (Somewhat on the understanding of fungi) in Annals of Botany 3 pp. 58 - 65

Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1810) Grundriss der Kräuterkunde (Foundations of herbal knowledge)

Back to top