Ernest Friedrich Gilg
Ernest Friedrich Gilg was a German botanist.Life
Gilg was curator of the Botanical Museum in Berlin. With fellow botanist Adolf Engler, he co-authored and published a syllabus on botanical families - "Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien". He also made contributions to Engler's "Das Pflanzenreich",. The Poaceae grass genus, Gilgiochloa, was posthumously named after him. His spouse, Charlotte Gilg-Benedict, was co-author in some of his publications, and has the author abbreviation Gilg-Ben.Work
- Pharmazeutische Warenkunde, published 1911
- Grundzüge der Botanik für Pharmazeuten, published 1921
- Lehrbuch der Pharmakognosie, published 1905; published 1910; 3rd edition published 1922
Over the course of his life, Gilg was binomial author or co-author of many species of plants. He named 42 species, subspecies, and sub-families of various grasses.
