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Place of Birth: Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
About Christian Knaut
- Christian Knaut (August 16, 1656 – April 11, 1716) was a German physician, botanist and librarian born in Halle an der Saale.
- His older brother, Christoph Knaut (1638–1694) was also a physician and botanist. He studied medicine at the University of Leipzig, where he had as instructors Gottfried Welsch, Paul Amman, Michael Ettmüller and Johannes Bohn.
- In 1682 he obtained his doctorate from the University of Jena with a dissertation titled De fermentatione in sanguine non existente.
- Afterwards he returned to Halle, where he served as a librarian and personal physician to Prince Emanuel Lebrecht of Anhalt-Köthen.
- As a librarian he was the author of a chronicle and description involving the counties of Ballenstädt and Aschersleben (1698). As a botanist he published Compendium Botanicum sive Methodus plantarum genuina, in which he provided a classification system for flowering plants based on petal number and arrangement.
- Carolus Linnaeus named the plant genus Knautia in honor of Christian and Christoph Knaut.
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