Justus Ferdinand Poggenburg I

Justus Ferdinand Poggenburg I (May 20, 1840–December 16, 1893) was a German born American botanist.^[1][2][3]

Poggenburg was born in Holtum (today part of Wegberg), Kingdom of Prussia. He married Mary Catherine Franckhauser (ca. 1841–1905), their son Justus Ferdinand Poggenburg II was a billiards champion, also like their grandson Justus Ferdinand Poggenburg III.^[3]

Together with Nathaniel Lord Britton, Emerson Ellick Sterns and three others, Poggenburg was the author of a catalogue of plants of the New York region that applied the principle of priority more strictly than had been done before, and so caused a rift between American and European botanists.^[4] The standard author abbreviation for Poggenburg when citing a botanical name is Poggenb.,^[1] and Poggenburg is also included alongside Britton and Sterns in the joint abbreviation "B.S.P.".^[4][2] He died, aged 53, in New York on December 16, 1893.^[3]

References

1. "Poggenburg, Justus Ferdinand (1840–1893)". International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
2. Philip Alexander Munz; David Daniels Keck (1968). A California Flora. University of California Press. p. 1554. ISBN 978-0-520-02405-2.
3. "Justus F.P. Poggenberg". Geni.com. 2014-12-03. Retrieved 2021-10-12.
4. Sharon E. Kingsland (2005). The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890–2000. JHU Press. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-8018-8171-8.

External links

• Justus F. Poggenburg; Addison Brown; N. L. Britton; Thos. C. Porter; E. E. Sterns; Arthur Hollick (1888). Preliminary catalogue of Anthophyta and Pteridophyta, reported as growing spontaneously within one hundred miles of New York City. New York: Torrey Botanical Club.