Karl Koch

He is also known as the first professional horticultural officer in Germany.

Karl Koch studied at University of Jena and University of Würzburg. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is botany. Places of work recorded in the authority are Berlin and Jena. Residence is recorded at Kingdom of Prussia. Employment is recorded with University of Jena and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Positions recorded include professor.

• Name — Karl Heinrich Emil Koch • Birthplace — Ettersburg, Germany • Died — 6 June 1809 • Place of death — Berlin, Germany • Fields — Botany • Workplaces — University of Jena, University of Berlin • Education — University of Jena, University of Würzburg • Known for — Wochenschrift für Gartnerei und Pflanzenkunde (Weekly Journal for Horticulture and Botany, 1858–72) • Author Abbrev Bot — K.Koch

He was born in Ettersburg near Weimar, Germany. He studied at the universities of Jena and Würzburg and taught, as privatdocent, at the University of Jena beginning 1834. He became an associate professor in 1836. He undertook a journey of research into southern Russia in 1836–38, and a second in 1843–44. The fruit of this second trip, in which he also visited Asia Minor, Great Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and the Caucasus Mountains, was his "Wanderungen im Oriente, während der Jahre 1843 und 1844" (1846). After his second journey, he settled at the University of Berlin in 1847, where he was later appointed assistant professor. He was at the Berlin botanical gardens beginning in 1849. He became general secretary of the Berlin Horticultural Society (Verein zur Beförderung des Gartenbau, a Prussian state institution), in which capacity he published "Wochenschrift für Gartnerei und Pflanzenkunde" (1858–72). In 1859, he was appointed professor of the Agricultural High School in Berlin. He died in Berlin.

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The authorities additionally record the headings Karl Heinrich Koch, K.Koch, Karl Heinrich Emil Koch and Karl-Heinrich Emil Koch. His recorded language was German. He married Therese Auguste Weichardt Koch. One child is recorded: Anna Bormann.

Karl Koch is recorded as botanist, pteridologist, university teacher, writer and botanical collector.