{{Short description|German naturalist and botanist (1845–1897)}} '''Ernst Huth''' (27 December 1845, Potsdam – 5 August 1897) was a German naturalist and botanist.
He studied mathematics and natural sciences in Berlin, later working as a secondary school teacher in Frankfurt an der Oder. Beginning in 1883 he published the ''Monatliche Mittheilungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins Regierungsbezirkes Frankfurt'', in which he was the author of numerous scientific articles.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=7PEyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA118 Leopoldina, Volume 33] edited by Dietrich Georg Kieser, Carl Gustav Carus, Wilhelm Friedrich Georg Behn, Carl Hermann Knoblauch, Karl Wilhelm Georg Fritsch (Freiherr von), Albert Wangerin</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZLAWAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA17 Google Books] Helios, Volumes 3-4</ref>
He is known for his treatment of the botanical family Ranunculaceae, of which he was the taxonomic author of many species, especially plants within the genus ''Delphinium''.<ref>[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_authorAbbrev=Huth&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query IPNI] List of plants described & co-described by Huth.</ref> In 1908 August Brand named the genus ''Huthia'' (synonym ''Cantua'', family Polemoniaceae) in his honor.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068622#page/406/mode/1up BHL] Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications</ref><ref>[http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?5864 GRIN Taxonomy for Plants] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224033930/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?5864 |date=2014-02-24 }} Huthia</ref>
== Selected works == * ''Ueber Geokarpe, Amphikarpe, und Heterokarpe Pflanzen'', 1890 - On geocarp, amphicarp and heterocarp. * ''Monographie der Gattung Caltha'', 1891 - Monograph on the genus ''Caltha''. * ''Flora von Frankfurt a.Oder und Umgegend'', 1895 - Flora of Frankfurt an der Oder and surrounding areas. * ''Monographie Der Gattung Delphinium'', 1895 - Monograph on the genus ''Delphinium''.<ref>[https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Ernst+Huth%22 Google Search] published works</ref>
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