German botanist (1809–1864).
Friedrich Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn was a German-born Dutch botanist and geologist. His father, Friedrich Junghuhn was a barber and a surgeon. His mother was Christine Marie Schiele. Junghuhn studied medicine in Halle and in Berlin from 1827 to 1831, meanwhile (1830) publishing a seminal paper on mushrooms in Linnaea. Ein Journal für Botanik.
Abbreviations: Jungh.
Occupations: scientific collector, physician, photographer, geologist, geographer, volcanologist, botanist, botanical collector
Citizenships: Kingdom of the Netherlands, Kingdom of Prussia
Languages: German
Dates: 1809-01-01T00:00:00Z – 1864-01-01T00:00:00Z
Birth place: Mansfeld
Direct attributions: 16 plants, 11 fungi
Authorship mentions: 27 plants, 50 fungi