# Otto Karl Berg > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Otto_Karl_Berg > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Otto_Karl_Berg.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Karl_Berg > Source revision: 1342257675 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|German botanist and pharmacist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Otto Karl Berg | image = | caption = | birth_date = 15 August 1815 | birth_place = [Stettin](/source/Stettin), [German Confederation](/source/German_Confederation) | death_date = {{d-da|20 November 1866|15 August 1815}} | death_place = Berlin, [German Confederation](/source/German_Confederation) | field = [Botanist](/source/Botany) | work_institution = [University of Berlin](/source/University_of_Berlin) | prizes = | footnotes = | author_abbrev_bot = '''O.Berg''' }} '''Otto Karl Berg''' (15 August 1815 in [Stettin](/source/Stettin) – 20 November 1866 in Berlin) was a German [botanist](/source/botanist) and [pharmacist](/source/pharmacist). The official abbreviation of his name, in botany, is O. Berg. He was the son of Johann Friedrich and Wilhelmine Friederike Berg. He studied pharmaceutical botany at the [University of Berlin](/source/University_of_Berlin) and published his first ''Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Botanik'' ("Handbook on Pharmaceutical Botany") as he graduated in 1845.{{cite journal|editor1-last=Proctor|editor1-first=William Jr.|title=Special Notice|journal=American Journal of Pharmacy|date=1867|volume=39|pages=190–192|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8rBLAAAAMAAJ&q=Otto+Karl+Berg+Berlin&pg=PA190|access-date=21 March 2017|publisher=Philadelphia College of Pharmacy}} In 1848, he married Caroline Albertine Florentine Witthaus, with whom he had six children.{{cite web|title=Otto Karl Berg|url=http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/hi/gnt/dsi2/index.php?table_name=dsi&function=details&where_field=id&where_value=4905|website=Database of Scientific Illustrators 1450-1950|access-date=21 March 2017}} He joined the faculty of Botany and Pharmacology at the [University of Berlin](/source/University_of_Berlin) in 1849, where he specialized in [South American](/source/South_American) flora. In 1862 he was appointed associate professor, and during his time in that position, he helped to make an independent discipline of pharmacology. ==Works== * ''Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Botanik''. 1845 * ''Charakteristik der für die Arzneikunde und Technik wichtigsten Pflanzengenera in Illustrationen nebst erläuterndem Text''. 1848 ([http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:2-20419 Digital edition from 1845] by the [University and State Library Düsseldorf](/source/University_and_State_Library_D%C3%BCsseldorf)) * ''Handbuch der pharmaceutischen Botanik. Band 1: Botanik'' . Nitze, Berlin 2. Aufl. 1850 [http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:2-13701 Digital edition] by the [University and State Library Düsseldorf](/source/University_and_State_Library_D%C3%BCsseldorf) * with [Carl Friedrich Schmidt](/source/Carl_Friedrich_Schmidt_(1811)) (1811–1890), ''Darstellung und Beschreibung sämtlicher in den Pharmacopoea Borussica aufgeführten offizinellen Gewächse''. 1853 * ''Revisio Myrtacearum Americae hucusque cognitarum''. 1855 * ''Flora Brasiliensis Myrtographia...''. 1855 * ''Pharmazeutische Warenkunde''. 1863 [http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:2-33419 Digital edition] by the [University and State Library Düsseldorf](/source/University_and_State_Library_D%C3%BCsseldorf) * ''Anatomischer Atlas zur pharmazeutischen Warenkunde''. 1865 * ''Die Chinarinden der pharmakognostischen Sammlung''. 1865 * ''Atlas der officinellen Pflanzen'' . Vol.1–4 . Felix, Leipzig 2nd ed. 1893–1902 [http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:2-24003 Digital edition] by the [University and State Library Düsseldorf](/source/University_and_State_Library_D%C3%BCsseldorf) {{botanist|O.Berg|border=0}} ==References== {{reflist}} * {{wikispecies-inline}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Berg, Otto Karl}} Category:German taxonomists Category:1815 births Category:1866 deaths Category:Biologists from the Kingdom of Prussia Category:Pharmacists from the Kingdom of Prussia Category:Humboldt University of Berlin alumni Category:Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin Category:19th-century German botanists --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Otto Karl Berg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Karl_Berg) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Karl_Berg?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.