Friedrich Wilhelm Gottlieb Rostkovius
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Friedrich Wilhelm Gottlieb Theophil Rostkovius (1770–1848) was a German medical doctor, mycologist and botanist.[1]
In 1801, he received his doctorate from the University of Halle with the thesis Dissertatio Botanica Inauguralis De Junco (treatise on rushes), studying under Carl Ludwig Willdenow.[2][1] He later settled in Stettin as a medical practitioner and continued to study plants and fungi, and publish on them.[3][4]
The plant genus Rostkovia from the family Juncaceae was named in his honor by Nicaise Auguste Desvaux (1784-1856).[5][4] His name is also associated with the species Euphrasia rostkoviana.[6][4]
Rostkovius died on 17 August 1848.[1]
Written works
- Monographia generis iunci, 1801; with Philipp Friedrich Theodor Meckel (1755–1803).
- Flora Sedinensis, exhibens plantas phanerogamas spontaneas nec non plantas praecipuas agri Swinemundii, 1824; with Wilhelm Ludwig Ewald Schmidt (1805–1843).
- Die Pilze Deutschlands: Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. Abt. 3, Volume 5; Volumes 21–22, 1844; with August Karl Joseph Corda (1809–1849) - German fungi : German flora in pictures from nature with descriptions.
- Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen, 1844; with Jacob Sturm (1771–1848) and Johann Wilhelm Sturm (1808–1865) - German flora in pictures from nature with descriptions.[7][8]