Austrian botanist (1861-1888).
Karl Eggerth junior (1861–1888) was an Austrian botanist and medical student who specialised in collecting lichen specimens. The grandson of the owner of the Viennese Karolinenbad and Esterházybad bathhouses of Mariahilf district, Josef Eggerth (1804-1878), and the son of Karl Eggerth the elder (1834-1888), the younger Karl was born on 1 November, 1861, into a prominent, wealthy family. His father had taken over the running of his father's bathhouses by the 1850s, and it is for Karl Eggerth senior that the Eggerthgasse was renamed in his honour. Along with the Eggerth's entrepreneurial spirit,