Name Ernst Nolte | Education University of Gottingen | |
Ernst Ferdinand Nolte (24 December 1791, Hamburg – 18 February 1875, Kiel) was a German botanist. He was son-in-law to chemist Christoph Heinrich Pfaff (1773-1852).
After duties as a pharmacy apprentice in Goslar, he studied medicine at the University of Gottingen. While a student, he engaged in frequent botanical excursions throughout northern Germany. In 1817 he finished his studies at Gottingen, and later came under the influence of Danish botanist Jens Wilken Hornemann (1770-1841). From 1821 to 1823 he conducted botanical investigations in Lauenburg and the "Elbe Duchies", later taking scientific excursions to Zealand, Funen, Jutland and islands off both coasts of the Schleswig-Holstein mainland.
From 1826 to 1873 he was a professor of botany at the University of Kiel, as well as director of its botanical garden. He was an instructor to Ferdinand von Mueller (1825-1896), who would later be known for his botanical work in Australia.
The plant genus Noltea from the family Rhamnaceae is named in his honor, as is Zostera noltei, a species of seagrass (named by Jens Wilken Hornemann, 1832).
Written works
He made significant contributions to the botanical atlas Flora Danica, and was the author of the following publications: