Johann Christoph Röhling, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German botanist
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Place of Birth: Roßdorf, Hesse, Germany
About Johann Christoph Röhling
- Johann Christoph Röhling (27 April 1757 – 19 December 1813) was a German botanist and clergyman who was a native of Gundernhausen, a town near Darmstadt. He studied theology in Giessen, and later taught school in Frankfurt am Main.
- In 1792 he became a pastor in Braubach, and in 1800, a parish priest in Breckenheim. Röhling was the author of "Deutschlands Flora", an important treatise on German flora, of which the first edition was published in 1796.
- He also published a work on mosses of Germany titled "Deutschlands Moose" (1800).
- He was the taxonomic authority of the plant genus Melandrium (family Caryophyllaceae).
- The plant genus Roehlingia (family Dilleniaceae) was named after him by August Wilhelm Dennstedt.
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