Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart

Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart is a Botaniste Suisse, born the November 4th 1742 with Holderbank and dead the June 26th 1795 with Herrenhäuser, close to Hanover.

He is the son of Johannes Ehrhart and Magdalena born Wild. After studies of Pharmacy, he works for Johann Gerhart Reinhart Andreae (1724-1793) with Hanover in 1770. After having spent several years with Stockholm and Uppsala, where he studies near Carl von Linné, he returns to Hanover in 1776. He obtains a contract to study the Flore area of Hanover, which he does of 1780 with 1783. He becomes after the botanist of the prince-voter of Herrenhausen.

He is in particular the author of Chloris hanoverana (1776), Supplementum systematis vegetabilium, generum and specierum plantarum (1781) and Beiträge zur Naturkunde… , in seven volumes (of 1787 with 1792). It contributes to import in Germany the system of Carl von Linné (1707-1778).

Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828) dedicates to him in 1779 the Ehrharta of Poaceae.

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