Friedrich Ehrhart     (1742 - 1795)




Image of Friedrich Ehrhart from J. Dörfler (1906 - 1907) Botaniker Porträts
Friedrich Ehrhart

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Biography
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Biography

worked at a bank in Bern, Switzerland

1765     goes to Nurenburg to study to be an apothecary

1768     graduates

1770     moves to Hanover

1771     travels to Sweden, works as an apothecary in Stockholm

1773     moves to Uppsala and works as an apothecary there

1776     returns to Hanover and workds for an apothecary named Andrea who has a large herbarium, and becomes its curator

1780     appointed botanist in charge of the manor-house (in Hanover) of the Elector of Brauschweig-Lüneberg

1783     retires, to write his book
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Selected Publications

Friedrich Ehrhart (1787 - 1792) Beiträge zur Naturkunde (Contributions to Natural Science) 7 vol.
An early Linnean Flora of the area around Hanover (vols 1-4) & Uppsala (vols 5-7).


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Thelephora F. Ehrhart: Fries

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