Johann Bernhard Wilhelm Lindenberg (September 18, 1781- June 6, 1851) was a German bryologist who worked as a lawyer in Bergedorf

Bergedorf

Bergedorf is the largest of the seven boroughs of Hamburg, Germany and a quarter within this borough. In 2006 the population of the borough was 118,942.-History:...

 (today a burrough of 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...

).

He was a native of Lübeck

Lübeck

The Hanseatic City of Lübeck is the second-largest city in Schleswig-Holstein, in northern Germany, and one of the major ports of Germany. It was for several centuries the "capital" of the Hanseatic League and, because of its Brick Gothic architectural heritage, is listed by UNESCO as a World...

, and studied law at the Universities of Jena and Göttingen. Lindenberg specialized in research of liverwort

Marchantiophyta

The Marchantiophyta are a division of bryophyte plants commonly referred to as hepatics or liverworts. Like other bryophytes, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry only a single set of genetic information....

s, and 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 Carl Moritz Gottsche

Carl Moritz Gottsche

Carl Moritz Gottsche was a German bryologist who was a native of Altona. He is remembered for his work as director of the Botanical Gardens at Hamburg.Gottsche was a leading authority of Hepaticae...

 (1808-1892) was author of an important treatise on hepaticology titled Synopsis Hepaticarum (1844-47).

The plant genus Lindenbergia

Lindenbergia

Lindenbergia is a genus of herbaceous plants in family Orobanchaceae. It contains 12 species found in Africa and Asia, and is most abundant in India.It is named in honor of Johann Bernhard Wilhelm Lindenberg, a lawyer and bryologist from Germany....

from the family Orobanchaceae

Orobanchaceae

Orobanchaceae, the broomrape family, is a family of flowering plants of the order Lamiales, with about 90 genera and more than 2000 species. Many of these genera were formerly included in the family Scrophulariaceae sensu lato...

is named in his honor.