Julius von Flotow; full name- Julius Christian Gottlieb Ulrich Gustav Georg Adam Ernst Friedrich von Flotow (March 9, 1788- August 15, 1856) was a German military officer and lichenologist who was born in the village of Pitzerwitz (Polish-Pstrowice) in the region of Neumark

Neumark

Neumark comprised a region of the Prussian province of Brandenburg, Germany.Neumark may also refer to:* Neumark, Thuringia* Neumark, Saxony* Neumark * Nowe Miasto Lubawskie or Neumark, a town in Poland, situated at river Drwęca...

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Due to a serious war-related injury, Flotow took an early retirement from the military and worked as a private scholar in Hirschberg

Jelenia Góra

----Jelenia Góra is a city in Lower Silesia, south-western Poland. The name of the city means "deer mountain" in Polish, Czech and German. It is close to the Krkonoše mountain range running along the Polish-Czech border – ski resorts such as Karpacz and Szklarska Poręba can be found...

. He specialized in research of lichen

Lichen

Lichens are composite organisms consisting of a symbiotic organism composed of a fungus with a photosynthetic partner , usually either a green alga or cyanobacterium...

s. Among his written works are the following:

• Reisebericht über eine Excursion nach einem Theile des südöstlichen Riesengebirges (1836)
• Über Haematococcus
  Haematococcus
  In taxonomy, Haematococcus is a genus of algae, specifically of the Haematococcaceae. Members of this group are the common cause for the pink color found in birdbaths. -Scientific journals:...
  
   Pluvialis (1844)
• Lichenes Florae Silesiae (1849-1850)

In 1856 he was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Breslau. The genus Flotovia from the botanical family Asteraceae

Asteraceae

The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...

is named in his honor.