Four surviving daughters by first wife: Helene (married Johannes von Hanstein), Mathilde (married Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg), Laura and Clara Ehrenberg. One son by second wife: Hermann Alexander
Parent(s)
Johann Gottfried Ehrenberg and Christiane Dorothea Becker
Awards
Wollaston Medal (1839) Leeuwenhoek Medal (1877), Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, foreign member of the Royal Society of London
Scientific career
Fields
naturalist
Institutions
University of Berlin
Notable students
Ferdinand Julius Cohn[1]
Author abbrev. (botany)
Ehrenb.
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (19 April 1795 – 27 June 1876) was a German naturalist, zoologist, botanist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist. He is considered to be one of the most famous and productive scientists of his time.
^Chung, King-Thom. Ferdinand Julius Cohn (1828–1898): Pioneer of Bacteriology Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine. Department of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Sciences, The University of Memphis.
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ChristianGottfriedEhrenberg (19 April 1795 – 27 June 1876) was a German naturalist, zoologist, botanist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist...
undulating, contractile movements (metaboly) of Euglena's body. In 1830, C. G. Ehrenberg renamed Müller's Cercaria Euglena viridis, and placed it, in keeping with...
The fungus was originally described scientifically in 1818 by ChristianGottfriedEhrenberg as a member of the genus Stilbospora. His diagnosis emphasized...
Rhizopus is a genus of common saprophytic fungi on plants and specialized parasites on animals. They are found in a wide variety of organic substances...
originally described from Hawaii (Oahu) by German naturalist ChristianGottfriedEhrenberg in 1820. It was accepted as a distinct species by Bernard Lowy...
living species of scorpions. The genus was introduced by C.G. Ehrenberg (in Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1828), originally as a subgenus of the genus Buthus. It was...
for being very contractile. Having been first identified by ChristianGottfriedEhrenberg in 1834, further research has identified eight additional true...
for an Opinion regarding the status of the species Spirillum volutans Ehrenberg 1832. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2009, 59, 2916-2920. Jean, Euzeby...
nimr was the scientific name proposed by Wilhelm Hemprich and ChristianGottfriedEhrenberg in 1830 for a leopard from Arabia. Panthera pardus jarvisi,...
imperfectly known animals. Cork, IE: King and Ridings. pp. 89–102. Ehrenberg, Christian G. (1831). "Pars zoologica. Animalia evertebrata exclusis insectis...
fluted". Lowe G, Yagmur EA, Kovarik F. A Review of the Genus Leiurus Ehrenberg, 1828 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) with Description of Four New Species from...
species in the world. The genus was first described in 1828 by ChristianGottfriedEhrenberg. They are found throughout the semi-arid and arid regions of...
and taxonomic revision of (Chlorophyta). I. Emendation of Chlamydomonas Ehrenberg and Chloromonas Gobi, and Description of Oogamochlamys gen. nov. and Lobochlamys...
ascomycete fungi. The genus was first described in 1818 by ChristianGottfriedEhrenberg. Cytospora species are known as plant pathogens. Cytospora canker...
described worldwide. The order was first described in 1831 by ChristianGottfriedEhrenberg. Most of rhabdocoels are free-living organisms, but some live...
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environments. This fungus was first discovered by the German scientist ChristianGottfriedEhrenberg in 1818 as Rhizopus nigricans. The name was changed in 1902...
a nucleus: Bacterium was in fact a genus created in 1828 by ChristianGottfriedEhrenberg Additionally, Cohn divided the bacteria according to shape namely:...
Scleroderma areolatum is a basidiomycete fungus and a member of the genus Scleroderma, or "earth balls." Like most members of Scleroderma, S. areolatum...
algae, rotifers, and nematodes. M. alpigenum was discovered by ChristianGottfriedEhrenberg in 1853. It is very closely related to Milnesium tardigradum...
Melampsora lini is a species of fungus and plant pathogen found in Ireland and commonly known as flax rust. The pathogen is an obligate biotroph meaning...
Sporisorium is a fungus genus in the Ustilaginaceae family. Taxonomic revision of Ustilago, Sporisorium and Macalpinomyces. A.R. McTaggart, R.G. Shivas...
Thalassia hemprichii, called Pacific turtlegrass, is a widespread species of seagrass in the genus Thalassia, native to the shores of the Indian Ocean...
Actinanthus is a monospecific genus which contains only the species Actinanthus syriacus Ehrenb.. It is native to Syria and Lebanon. "Actinanthus Ehrenb...
Breslau and Berlin. It was in Berlin that he became friends with ChristianGottfriedEhrenberg, the two men sharing an interest in natural history. Hemprich...
scientific expedition to Egypt and the Middle East with his friend ChristianGottfriedEhrenberg. The sooty gull is native to the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden,...
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