Died 22 December 1865, Darmstadt, Germany | ||
Georg Friedrich Schnittspahn (3 January 1810 in Darmstadt – 22 December 1865 in Darmstadt) was a German botanist. He was the son of Hofgärtner (court gardener) Johann August Schnittspahn (1763-1842).
He was trained as a gardener in Darmstadt, and by way of a scholarship from Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse, he visited the Jardin des Plantes in Paris in 1829. From 1831 to 1838 he taught classes in botany at the agricultural establishment of Heinrich Wilhelm von Pabst in Kranichstein. Beginning in 1841 he served as inspector at the botanical garden in Darmstadt, where in 1855 he was appointed director.
In 1841 he became a full-time instructor of botany and zoology at the Höhere Gewerbschule (vocational school) in Darmstadt. In 1845 he was cofounder of the Naturhistorischen Vereins für das Grossherzogthum Hessen (Natural History Society of the Grand Duchy of Hesse).
In 1842 Carl Heinrich 'Bipontinus' Schultz named the genus Schnittspahnia in his honor.