Jacob Utsch (8 September 1824, Erndtebrück – 3 August 1901, Freudenberg) was a German physician and botanist, who specialized in the plant genus Rubus.UNI-Goettingen Department of Systematics, Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants (with Herbarium)
He studied medicine at the Universities of Bonn, Marburg, Halle and Berlin, obtaining his doctorate at the latter institution in 1849.Annual Report of the Westphalian Provincial Association of ..., Volume 30 by Westfälischer Provincial Association for Science and Art, Münster From 1852 he practiced medicine in Freudenberg, where he later attained the title of Sanitätsrat. As a botanist he collected specimens mainly in the vicinity of Freudenberg.Notizblätter des Königlichen Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin, Volume 7 edited by Königlicher Botanischer Garten Berlin
In 1896 he published a work on Rubus hybrids titled Hybriden im Genus Rubus.Europeana Hybriden im Genus Rubus He is also known for his treatment of the genus Rubus in Konrad Beckhaus's comprehensive Flora von Westfalen ("Flora of Westphalia", 1893).
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