Johannes Flüggé

{{Short description|German botanist (1775–1816)}}

Johannes (Johann) Flüggé (22 June 1775 – 28 June 1816) was a German botanist and physician who was a native of Hamburg. He undertook botanical excursions from 1792 to Heligoland and Neuwerk.{{Cite web |date=March 2021 |title=Work of an important botanist, once thought lost, potentially uncovered in our collections. |url=https://tepapafoundation.org.nz/work-of-an-important-botanist-once-thought-lost-potentially-uncovered-in-our-collections |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=tepapafoundation.org.nz |language=en}}

He studied medicine and natural history at the Universities of Jena, Vienna and Göttingen, and in 1800 received his doctorate at the University of Erlangen. Afterwards he undertook further botanical excursions throughout Germany and France.

In 1810 Flüggé established the first botanical garden in Hamburg.[https://books.google.com/books?id=ujIXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA296 Google Books] Botanische Zeitung, Volume 55 He is remembered for his research of grasses in the genus Paspalum.[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_authorAbbrev=Fl%C3%BCgg%C3%A9&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 Flüggé. The plant genus Flueggea from the family Phyllanthaceae is named in his honor.[https://books.google.com/books?id=RpVJJH3kV0oC&pg=PA287 Trees and Shrubs of Mpumalanga and Kruger National Park] by Ernst Schmidt, Mervyn Lotter, Warren McCleland In 1810, he published the monograph Graminum Monographiae. Pars 1, Paspalum, Reimaria.[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13854906 OCLC WorldCat] Graminum monographiae. Pars I, Paspalus. Riemaria

Johannes Flügge had been married to Karoline Auguste Preller since 1811.{{Citation |title=Allgemeine Grundsätze |date=1946-12-31 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783111633015-003 |work=Einkommensteuergesetz |pages=9–9 |access-date=2023-05-08 |publisher=De Gruyter}} Their son August died on 3 December 1839 in the district of Schleswig. A diary with entries on his trip to France, among other things, is in the library of the Botanical Garden in Hamburg. Flügge's brother Benedict Gilbert (1777-1821) was a merchant and wine merchant (from 1804 in Kiel and also in Bordeaux).{{Citation |title=V. Abschnitt. Fürsorge für die Hinterbliebenen -er etatsmäkigev Senmten |date=1908-12-31 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783112639627-006 |work=Schweitzer’s Ausgabe des neuen bayer. Beamtengesetzes |pages=32–38 |access-date=2023-05-08 |publisher=De Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-263962-7}}

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