Otto Christian Blandow’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro German bryologist
A.K.A. Blandow
Was Botanist 
Scientist 
Bryologist 
From Germany 
Type Science 
Gender male
Birth 5 August 1778
Death 15 March 1810
(aged 31 years)

Otto Christian Blandow (5 August 1778, Waren – 15 March 1810, Waren) was a German apothecary and botanist, specializing in the field of bryology.

He trained under Joachim Christian Timm (1734-1805) in Malchin, afterwards working as an apothecary in Rostock, Neubrandenburg, Anklam, Woldegk and Waren.

The genus Blandowia was named in his honor by Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765-1812). Since 1875, a collection of his mosses has been kept at the British Museum of Natural History (250 specimens in 5 fascicles).

Publications

  • Index muscorum frondosorum exsiccatorum: fasciculi primi [-quinti], 1804.
  • Systematisch-tabellarische Sammlung von Laubmoosen, 1808 – Systematic-tabular collection of mosses.
  • Uebersicht der Mecklenburgischen Moose nach alphábetischer Ordnung, 1809 Survey of mosses from Mecklenburg in alphabetical order.
The standard author abbreviation Blandow is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.
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