Ernest Friedrich Gilg

Ernest (or Ernst) Friedrich Gilg (born January 12, 1867, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and died October 11, 1933, in Berlin) was a German botanist.

Life

Gilg was curator of the Botanical Museum in Berlin. In 1921, Gilg, and fellow botanist Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler, co-authored and published two books on botany - "Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien" and "Das Pflanzenreich"." The Poaceae grass "Gilgiochoa" was posthumously named after him.

Work

* "Pharmazeutische Warenkunde", published 1911
* "Grundzüge der Botanik für Pharmazeuten", published 1921
* "Lehrbuch der Pharmakognosie", published 1922

Over the course of his life, Gilg identified and named 42 species, subspecies, and sub-families of various grasses.

References

External links

* [http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearch?id=3144-1&query_type=by_id&output_format=object_view Ernest Gilg at IPNI.org]