Ludwig Radlkofer

German botanist and university teacher (1829–1927).

Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer (19 December 1829, in Munich – 16 February 1927, in Munich) was a Bavarian taxonomist and botanist. Radlkofer became a physician in 1854 and earned a PhD in botany at Jena the following year. He became an associate professor of botany at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 1859 as well as deputy director of the Nymphenburg Palace botanical garden and herbarium. In 1892, he was named director of the Botanical Museum. He was made emeritus professor in 1913 and died in 1927 in the same room in which he was born. Radlkofer's main work was on the family S