Jacob Utsch (8 September 1824, Erndtebrück – 3 August 1901, Freudenberg) was a German physician and botanist, who specialized in the plant genus Rubus.[1]

He studied medicine at the Universities of Bonn, Marburg, Halle and Berlin, obtaining his doctorate at the latter institution in 1849.[2] From 1852 he practiced medicine in Freudenberg, where he later attained the title of Sanitätsrat. As a botanist he collected specimens mainly in the vicinity of Freudenberg.[3]

In 1896 he published a work on Rubus hybrids titled Hybriden im Genus Rubus.[4] He is also known for his treatment of the genus Rubus in Konrad Beckhaus's comprehensive Flora von Westfalen ("Flora of Westphalia", 1893).[3]

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  1. ^ UNI-Goettingen Department of Systematics, Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants (with Herbarium)
  2. ^ Annual Report of the Westphalian Provincial Association of ..., Volume 30 by Westfälischer Provincial Association for Science and Art, Münster
  3. ^ a b Notizblätter des Königlichen Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin, Volume 7 edited by Königlicher Botanischer Garten Berlin
  4. ^ Europeana Hybriden im Genus Rubus
  5. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Utsch.