Georg Friedrich Kaulfuss

{{Short description|German botanist and pteridologist}}

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|birth_date = 8 April 1786

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|death_date = 9 December 1830 (aged 44)

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|field = Botany

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Georg Friedrich Kaulfuss (8 April 1786 – 9 December 1830) was a professor at Halle. He described the pteridophytes collected by Adelbert von Chamisso, and he named the fern Cibotium chamissoi after him. The genus Kaulfussia is named for Kaulfuss.[https://books.google.com/books?id=H6pNAAAAcAAJ&dq=Kaulfuss+Kaulfussia&pg=PT194 The botanic garden; consisting of highly finished representations, etc.] by Benjamin Maund

In 1816, he obtained his doctorate from the University of Halle, where in 1823, he became a full professor of botany.[https://books.google.com/books?id=8VEUIH15wAYC&pg=PA231 Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen. Hauptbd., Band 1] (short biography in German).