Otto Karl Berg

Otto Karl Berg
Born	1815 Stettin, Germania
Died	1866 Berlin, Germania
Nationality	German
Fields	Botanist
Institutions	University of Berlin

Otto Karl Berg (August 18, 1815, Stettin - November 20, 1866, Berlin) 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 plants.

Biography

He was the son of Johann Friedrich and Wilhelmine Friederike Berg. He studied in Berlin 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

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Name	Berg, Otto Karl
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Date of birth	August 18, 1815
Place of birth	Stettin, Germania
Date of death	November 20, 1866
Place of death	Berlin, Germania