Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg
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Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg (1753-1815) was an American clergyman and botanist, son of Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg, born at Trappe, Pennsylvania He was educated at Halle and traveled in Germany and in England. He was ordained a Lutheran minister and became a pastor of a Lutheran church in Philadelphia. In 1779 he retired and devoted himself to the study of botany. He is best-known as a botanist. Muhlenbergia, a well-known genus of grasses was named in his honor. His chief works are Catalogus Plantarum Americœ Septentrionalis (1813) and Descriptio Uberior Graminum et Plantarum Calamariarum Americœ Septentrionalis Indiginarum et Cicurum (1817).
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