Carl Moritz Gottsche was a German bryologist

Bryology

Bryology is the branch of botany concerned with the scientific study of bryophytes . Bryophytes were first studied in detail in the 18th century...

 who was a native of Altona

Altona, Hamburg

Altona is the westernmost urban borough of the German city state of Hamburg, on the right bank of the Elbe river. From 1640 to 1864 Altona was under the administration of the Danish monarchy. Altona was an independent city until 1937...

. He is remembered for his work as director of the Botanical Gardens at Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

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Gottsche was a leading authority of Hepaticae. With Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck

Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck

Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species...

 (1776-1858) and Johann Bernhard Wilhelm Lindenberg

Johann Bernhard Wilhelm Lindenberg

Johann Bernhard Wilhelm Lindenberg was a German bryologist who worked as a lawyer in Bergedorf .He was a native of Lübeck, and studied law at the Universities of Jena and Göttingen...

 (1781-1851), he was author of Synopsis Hepaticarum (1844-47), which was a landmark work in the field of hepaticology.

The botanical genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

Gottschea in the family Schistochilaceae is named after him.