Carl Moritz Gottsche

Carl Moritz Gottsche (3 July 1808 – 28 September 1892) was a German physician and bryologist born in Altona. He was the father of geologist Carl Christian Gottsche (1859-1909).

Gottsche was a leading authority of Hepaticae. With Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776-1858) and Johann Bernhard Wilhelm Lindenberg (1781-1851), he was author of Synopsis Hepaticarum (1844-47), which was a landmark work in the field of hepaticology. Together with Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst he issued and distributed no. 221 until no. 600 of the exsiccata series Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker.^[1]

In 1881 he received an honorary doctorate in philosophy from the University of Kiel.^[2]

The botanical genera of liverworts; Gottschea in the family Schistochilaceae is named after him, as well as Gottschelia, which is in the family Cephaloziellaceae.^[3]^[4]

The standard author abbreviation Gottsche is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[5]

^ "Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's unter Mitwirkung mehrer namhafter Botaniker: IndExs ExsiccataID=464504064". IndExs - Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
^ Biography @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
^ "Gottschelia Grolle". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 23 February 2021.
^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
^ International Plant Names Index. Gottsche.