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Jan 25, 1810 Died on 01 Jun 1887 (aged 77)
botanist (1810-1887)
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About Georg Christian Wittstein
- Georg Christian Wittstein (25 January 1810, in Hann.
- Münden – 1 June 1887, in Munich) was a German pharmaceutical botanist and chemist. He trained as a pharmacist in Minden, then worked as a pharmacy assistant in Clausthal, Güstrow und Hanover.
- In 1840 he received his doctorate from the University of Munich, where he worked for several years as an assistant at the pharmaceutical institute.
- In 1851–53 he taught classes at the technical school in Ansbach, and afterwards spent many years as director of a private school for chemistry in Munich (1853–79).The plant genus Wittsteinia (family Alseuosmiaceae) was named in his honor by Ferdinand von Mueller.
