German botanist (1808-1892).
Carl Moritz Gottsche (3 July 1808 – 28 September 1892) was a German physician and bryologist born in Altona. He was the father of geologist Carl Christian Gottsche (1859-1909). Gottsche was a leading authority of Hepaticae. With Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776-1858) and Johann Bernhard Wilhelm Lindenberg (1781-1851), he was author of Synopsis Hepaticarum (1844-47), which was a landmark work in the field of hepaticology. Together with Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst he issued and distributed no. 221 until no. 600 of the exsiccata series Hepaticae Europaeae. Die Lebermoose Europa's