About Benjamin Peter Gloxin
Lived 1765 – 1794 (aged 28–29). Benjamin Peter Gloxin was a French botanist and physician.
Benjamin Peter Gloxin (1765–1794) was a German physician and botanical writer who lived in Colmar. He is commemorated by the Brazilian genus Gloxinia and Sinningia speciosa, which is commonly called Gloxinia in the horticulture trade. In 1791, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Works Observationes Botanicae 1785, Argentorati, Strasbourg.
He was honoured in 2005, when botanists (H.E.Moore) Roalson & Boggan named a monotypic genus of a flowering plant from Columba after Gloxin. Gloxinella and its one species, Gloxinella lindeniana.
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German botanist (1765-1794)
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Benjamin Peter Gloxin was born in 1765 in Colmar.
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Benjamin Peter Gloxin died in 1794.
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Benjamin Peter Gloxin was a botanist and physician.
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Benjamin Peter Gloxin was French.
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