Karl Koch was a German film director and writer, assistant to Luchino Visconti.
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Karl Heinrich Emil Koch (1809 - 1879) was a German botanist. He was born in Ettersberg near Weimar, Germany.
He is best known for his botanical explorations in the Caucasus region, including northeast Turkey. Unfortunately, most of his collections have today been lost.
He became a professor at the University of Jena in 1836. He moved on to the University of Berlin in 1847, and was at the Berlin botanical gardens beginning in 1849. He became General Secretary of the Berlin Horticultural Society in 1852.
Koch is known as the first professional horticultural officer in Germany.
He died in Berlin. The standard botanical author abbreviation K.Koch is applied to plants described by this botanist, who should also appear on this list.
