Otto Carl Ernst Kuntze (June 23, 1843 - 1907) was a German botanist. June 23 is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 191 days remaining. ... 1843 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Pinguicula grandiflora Botany is the scientific study of plantlife. ...

Biography

Otto Kuntze was born in Leipzig. [] (Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk) is the largest city in the Federal State (Bundesland) of Saxony in Germany. ...

He was an apothecary in his early career. He published an essay entitled Pocket Fauna of Leipzig. Between 1863 and 1866 worked as tradesman in Berlin and travelled through central Europe und Italy. From 1868 to 1873 he had his own factory for essential oils, and attained a comfortable standard of living. He then travelled around the world between 1874 and 1876, to the Caribbean, USA, Japan, China, South East Asia, Arabian peninsula and Egypt. The journal of these travels was published as "Around the World" (1881). From 1876 to 1878 he studied Natural Science in Berlin and Leipzig and gained his doctorate in Freiburg writing about the drug made from Cinchona. He edited the botanical collection from his world voyage encompassing 7,700 specimens in Berlin and Kew Gardens. 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar). ... 1866 (MDCCCLXVI) is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe. ... 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... 1873 (MDCCCLXXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... An essential oil, is a concentrated, hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aromatic compounds extracted from plants. ... 1874 (MDCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1876 (MDCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... World map depicting Caribbean: West Indies redirects here. ... Location of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia. ... The Arabian Peninsula The Arabian Peninsula is a mainly desert peninsula in Southwest Asia at the junction of Africa and Asia and an important part of the greater Middle East. ... 1881 (MDCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1876 (MDCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... 1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Berlin is the capital city and a state of Germany. ... Freiburg city from Schlossberg Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, in the Breisgau region, on the western edge of the southern Black Forest (German: Schwarzwald) with about 214,000 inhabitants. ... Species See text Cinchona L., is the name of a genus in Rubiaceae family, large evergreens that can grow over 10 metres tall. ... Kew Gardens is the name of several places: Kew Gardens is a commonly-used name for the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London, United Kingdom Kew Gardens is the name of a park in The Beaches neighborhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Kew Gardens is also the name of a neighborhood...

The publication came as a shock to botany, since Kuntze had entirely revised the taxonomy. His two volume treatise, Revisio generum plantarum (1891) was widely rejected or deliberately ignored. 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

In 1886, Kuntze visited the Russian Near East, and spent the 1887-1888 period on the Canary Islands. The results of both journeys became part of his main work, the Revision. At the beginning of the 1890s, he left for South America, of which he managed to see nearly all countries. In 1894, he visited the Southern African countries as well as the German colonies. In the last years of his life, Kuntze moved permanently to Sanremo (Italy). His revolutionary ideas about the botanic nomenclature created a conflict at the 2nd Congress of Botany, as a result of which the doors of academic world were closed behind him. He died in Sanremo two years later. 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ... 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. ... 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... For other uses, see Africa (disambiguation). ... This is a list of former German colonies, or Schutzgebiete (protectorates) as they were called in official German. ... Country Italy Region Liguria Province Imperia (IM) Mayor Claudio Borea Elevation 15 m Area 54 km² Population  - Total (as of 2004) 56,903  - Density 936/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Coordinates Gentilic Sanremesi or Sanremaschi Dialing code 0184 Postal code 18038 Frazioni San Romolo, Poggio, Bussana, Bussana Vecchia, Coldirodi...

Biographical articles

• Barnhart, John Hendley (1913). “Otto Kuntze”, Bulletin of the Charleston Museum. volume 9, 65-68.
• Barnhart, Ignatio (1902). “II. Notae biographicae peregrinatorum Indiae occidentalis botanicorum”, Leipzig Gebrüder Bornträger, 70-71.
• Hemsley, W. B. (1907). “Dr. Otto Kuntze”, Kew Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, 100-101.
• Stafleu, Frans A. (1978). “Kuntze, Carl Ernst Otto”, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 15, 268-269.

External links

• Revisio generum plantarum, online
• Biography