Otto Karl Berg
Encyclopedia
Otto Karl Berg was a German botanist and pharmacist
. The official abbreviation of his name, in botany, is O. Berg.
O Berg. The abbreviation is used to indicate to Otto Karl Berg as an authority on scientific description and classification of plant
s.
and married in 1848, Caroline Albertine Florentine Witthaus, with whom he had six children.
He joined the faculty of Botany and Pharmacology at the University of Berlin in 1849. In 1862 he was appointed associate professor. Helped to make an independent discipline of pharmacology. He also specialized in South American flora.
Pharmacist
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. The official abbreviation of his name, in botany, is O. Berg.
O Berg. The abbreviation is used to indicate to Otto Karl Berg as an authority on scientific description and classification of plant
Plant
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Biography
He was the son of Johann Friedrich and Wilhelmine Friederike Berg. He studied in BerlinBerlin
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and married in 1848, Caroline Albertine Florentine Witthaus, with whom he had six children.
He joined the faculty of Botany and Pharmacology at the University of Berlin in 1849. In 1862 he was appointed associate professor. Helped to make an independent discipline of pharmacology. He also specialized in South American flora.
Works
- Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Botanik. 1845
- Charakteristik der für die Arzneikunde und Technik wichtigsten Pflanzengenera in Illustrationen nebst erläuterndem Text. 1848
- Con Carl Friedrich Schmidt (1811-1890), Darstellung und Beschreibung sämtlicher in den Pharmacopoea Borussica aufgeführten offizinellen Gewächse. 1853
- Revision Myrtacearum Americae hucusque cognitarum. 1855
- Flora Brasiliensis Myrtographia.... 1855
- Pharmazeutische Warenkunde. 1863
- Anatomischer Atlas zur pharmazeutischen Warenkunde. 1865
- Die Chinarinden der pharmakognostischen Sammlung. 1865