Paul Erich Otto Wilhelm Knuth (20 November 1854 in Greifswald – 30 October 1900 in Kiel) was a 19th-century German botanist and pollination ecologist.[1]

He studied chemistry and natural history at the University of Greifswald and obtained his doctorate degree in 1876. He then took up a career as "high school" (Realschule) teacher, first in Iserlohn in Westphalia and from 1881 in Kiel. Parallel with his teaching duties, he found time to study the flora of Schleswig-Holstein[2] and the North Frisian Islands[3] and meticulous studies of plant-pollinator interactions, which he published in his monumental work Handbuch der Blütenbiologie (Handbook of Flower Biology; from 1898 and continued after his death by Otto Appel and Ernst Loew).[4][5][6][7][8] From 1891 he suffered from illness. He was granted leave of absence to visit the botanic garden at Buitenzorg in Java, where he stayed for five months and did pollination studies. He returned to Kiel via Japan, California and New York.


The standard author abbreviation Knuth is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[9]

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  1. ^ B, I. H. (1899). "Paul Knuth". Nature. 61 (1574): 205. Bibcode:1899Natur..61..205I. doi:10.1038/061205a0.
  2. ^ Knuth, P. (1887). Flora der Provinz Schleswig-Holstein des Fürstenthums Lübeck, sowie des Gebietes der freien Städte Lübeck und Hamburg. Leipzig: Lenz.
  3. ^ Knuth, P. (1895). Flora der Nordfriesischen Inseln. Kiel.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ Knuth, P. (1898). Handbuch der Blütenbiologie. I. Einleitung und Litteratur. Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann.
  5. ^ Knuth, P. (1898). Handbuch der Blütenbiologie. II. Die bisher in Europa und im arktischen Gebiet gemachten Blütenbiologischen Beobachtungen; 1. Teil: Ranunculaceae bis Compositae. Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann. p. 698.
  6. ^ Knuth, P. (1898). Handbuch der Blütenbiologie. II. Die bisher in Europa und im arktischen Gebiet gemachten Blütenbiologischen Beobachtungen; 2. Teil: Lobeliaceae bis Gnetaceae. Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann. p. 705.
  7. ^ Knuth, P.; Appel, O.; Loew, E. (1904). Handbuch der Blütenbiologie. III. Bischer in Aussereuropäischen gebieten gemachten blütenbiologischen beobachtungen; 1. Teil: Cycadaceae bis Cornaceae. Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann. p. 570.
  8. ^ Knuth, P.; Appel, O.; Loew, E. (1904). Handbuch der Blütenbiologie. III. Bischer in Aussereuropäischen gebieten gemachten blütenbiologischen beobachtungen; 2. Teil: Clethraceae bis Compositae. Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann. p. 598.
  9. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Knuth.
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