Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch

Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch studied at Leipzig University. Reinhold Berens and Friedrich August Ludwig von Burgsdorff are recorded as having studied under Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch. The recorded working language is German and Latin. The field of work recorded is botany. Places of work recorded in the authority are Frankfurt (Oder). Employment is recorded with Collegium medicum and University of Frankfurt an der Oder.

He studied medicine and other subjects at the University of Leipzig (1728–35), where one of his instructors was the naturalist Johann Ernst Hebenstreit (1703–1757). From 1742, he gave lectures in physiology, botany and materia medica at the University of Frankfurt, afterwards relocating to Berlin as a professor of botany at the Collegium Medico-chirurgicum and director of the local botanical garden. Beginning in 1770, he gave lectures at the recently established institute of forestry, where he was instrumental in providing a scientific basis for the field of forestry. In his experiments involving plant movement, he demonstrated the influence that climatic factors had upon plant organs. Also, his view on the role that insects play in pollination of plants was considered to be ahead of its time. The botanical genus Gleditsia (family Fabaceae) is named in his honor, as is the botanical journal Gleditschia. In Berlin-Schöneberg, a thoroughfare called Gleditschstraße bears his name.

"Consideratio Epicriseos Siegesbeckianae in Linnaei Systema Plantorum Sexuale Et Methodum Botanicam Huic Superstructam", 1740 – dissertation in which Gleditsch recognized the importance of the Linnean System. "Methodus Fungorum", 1753. "Systema plantarum a staminum situ Systema plantarum a staminum situ", 1764. Vermischte physicalisch-botanisch-oeconomische Abhandlungen, 1765 – Mixed physical-botanical-economic treatises. Systematische Einleitung in die neuere, aus ihren eigenthümlichen physikalisch-ökonomischen Gründen hergeleitete Forstwissenschaft (two volumes, 1775) – Systematic introduction to the newly (due to unique physical-economic reasons) derived forestry.