August Wilhelm Dennstedt (1776–1826), surname sometimes spelled Dennstaedt,Dennstedt, August Wilhelm Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries was a German medical doctor and botanist who was bürgermeister of Magdala, a town near Weimar. From 1817 he was scientific director of the Grand Ducal Garden in Belvedere.Goethes Werke, Part 3 by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheZeno.org Goethes Gespräche. Herausgegeben von Woldemar Freiherr von Biedermann, Band 1–10, Leipzig 1889–1896, Band 10.
He was the taxonomic author of numerous botanical taxa; three examples being the genera Bruxanelia, Coulejia and Merremia. He entered many of his taxonomic findings in the register "Schlüssel zum Hortus indicus malabaricus".IPNI List of botanical taxa described by Dennstedt The genus Dennstaedtia Bernh. (family Dennstaedtiaceae) is named in his honor.CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific ..., Volume 2 by Umberto Quattrocchi
Published works Weimar's Flora: Pflanzen mit deutlichen Geschlechtern, Volume 1, 1800. Pflanzen mit Luftgefäßen, 1807. Nomenclator botanicus: seu, Enumeratio alphabetica omnium hucusque cognitorum vegetabilium, adjectis praecipuis synonymis, 1810. Das Gewächsreich: oder characterisirende Beschreibung aller zur Zeit bekannten Gewächse. Hortus Belvedereanus. Oder Verzeichniss der bestimmten Pflanzen, 1820.Google Search published works
References