Friedrich August Flückiger

Swiss pharmacist, chemist and botanist (1828-1894).

Friedrich August Flückiger (also spelled Flueckiger; 15 May 1828 - 11 December 1894) was a Swiss pharmacist, chemist and botanist. He was born on 15 May 1828, in Langenthal, canton of Bern. Flückiger studied chemistry at the University of Berlin (1845–47), afterwards teaching pharmacy classes in Solothurn. In 1850 he studied botany at the University of Geneva, followed by studies at the University of Heidelberg. He was the author of the botanical name Boswellia sacra, a tree native to Somalia, Oman, and Yemen that is a major source of frankincense. From 1853 to 1859, Flückiger was director of

Abbreviations: Flück.
Occupations: university teacher, pharmacologist, pharmacist, historian, chemist, botanist, botanical collector
Citizenships: Switzerland
Languages: German
Dates: 1828-01-01T00:00:00Z – 1894-01-01T00:00:00Z
Birth place: Langenthal
Direct attributions: 2 plants, 0 fungi
Authorship mentions: 2 plants, 0 fungi

2 plants attributed to2 plants:

Boswellia sacra (Frankincense) Flück. 1867
plant species in the burseraceae family
Boswellia sacra, also known as Boswellia carteri and others, and commonly called the frankincense tree or the olibanum tree, is a tree in the genus Boswellia, in the Burseraceae family, from which frankincense, a resinous dried sap, is harvested. The olibanum tree is a plant native to the countries of Oman and Yemen, in the south of the Arabian Peninsula, and to Somalia and Ethiopia, in the Horn of Africa. In 2012, it was replanted in Israel in the Middle East, 1,500 years after dying out there.
Remijia pedunculata Flück. 1883
plant species in the rubiaceae family
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