T. K. G. Herzog
Theodor Carl Julius Herzog was a German bryologist and phytogeographer. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Herz. when citing a botanical name.Biography
He studied sciences in Freiburg and Zürich, obtaining his doctorate in 1903 from the University of Munich as a student of botanist Ludwig Radlkofer. Later on, he obtained his habilitation at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich under the sponsorship of Carl Joseph Schröter.
From 1904 to 1912, he was engaged in a series of botanical excursions; Sardinia, Ceylon and Bolivia. In 1920 he became an associate professor of botany at the University of Munich, and later succeeded Wilhelm Detmer at the University of Jena, where he remained until 1948.
He was a leading authority of mosses, and also dealt with the systematics and phytogeography of flowering plants. As his career progressed, he focused more of his attention towards the classification of liverworts, in particular the family Lejeuneaceae.
The plant specific terms herzogiana and herzogii bear his name; two examples being: Frullania herzogiana and Luteolejeunea herzogii.
