Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde (June 30, 1873, Breslau (now Wrocław) – March 14, 1942, Berlin-Dahlem) was a German botanist.

Biography

Fedde studied natural sciences, commencing in 1892 and graduating in 1896 in Breslau. He was a teacher in schools of higher learning in Breslau, Tarnowitz and Berlin. He became an associate at the Berlin Botanical Museum

Botanical Garden in Berlin

Botanical Garden in Berlin is considered one of the most important gardens in the world, with area of 43 hectares and around 22,000 different plant species.The garden is located in the Dahlem neighborhood of the borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf...

 in 1901 and a professor there in 1912.
He participated in several collecting trips to the Mediterranean, Finland and South Russia.
Fedde's main work dealt with plant systematics and biogeography

Biogeography

Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species , organisms, and ecosystems in space and through geological time. Organisms and biological communities vary in a highly regular fashion along geographic gradients of latitude, elevation, isolation and habitat area...

. His renown rests mainly on the publication of the Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis and its Beihefte for longer monographs.

The genus Feddea

Feddea

Feddea is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family....

(Asteraceae

Asteraceae

The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...

) Urb. was named in his honor.

Publications

Extensive bibliography at WorldCat

External links

• Repertorium specierum novarum regni vegetabilis at the Biodiversity Heritage Library http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/4894