Gustav August Ludwig David Schellenberg (28 September 1882; 4 June 1963) was a German botanist and newspaper publisher. He was born and died in Wiesbaden.

Schellenberg was a botanist in Zurich, Berlin, Kiel and Göttingen. He lectured in Kiel and Göttingen from 1925 to 1934.[1] One of his specialties was the plant family Connaraceae.[2] Schellenberg's family had owned the weekly Wiesbadener Tagblatt newspaper since its founding in the 1840s, and in 1949 Schellenberg restarted the newspaper and served as its publisher.[3][4]

The plant species Aizoon schellenbergii and the plant genus Schellenbergia[5] are named for Schellenberg.

Selected works

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  • Gustav Schellenberg, Hans Schinz, and Albert Thellung (1913). "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Flora von Kolumbien und Westindien. Neuchatel, 1913.
  • Wilhelm Brandt, Max Gurke, and Gustav Schellenberg. Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen in Naturgetreuen Abbildungen Mit Kurz Erläuterndem Texte.
  • Das Pflanzenreich (Vol 103): Connaraceae. W. Engelmann, 1938.
  • "Die bis jetzt aus Neu-Guinea bekannt gewordenen Opiliaceae, Oleaceae, und Icacinaceae." [The Opiliaceae, Oleaceae, and Icacinaceae so far known from New Guinea.] Bot.Jahrb. 58: 155–177. 1923.
  • "Die Connaraceen Papuasiens". [The Connaraceae of Papuasia]. Bot. Jahrb. 58: 178–181. 1923.

References

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  1. ^ "Index collectorum." Herbarium GOET, Georg-August-Universität-Gottingen. Accessed 27 March 2020. https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/187070.html
  2. ^ Quattrocchi, Umberto (1999). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names. CRC Press, Nov 22, 1999.
  3. ^ Eggli, Urs and Leonard E. Newton (2013). Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names. Springer Science & Business Media, Jun 29, 2013.
  4. ^ Warkentin, Erwin J. (2016). The History of U.S. Information Control in Post-War Germany: The Past Imperfect. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016
  5. ^ Quattrocchi, Umberto (1999). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names. CRC Press, Nov 22, 1999.
  6. ^ International Plant Names Index.  G.Schellenb.