Carl Heinrich Ebermaier (4 February 1802, in Rheda – 1 January 1870,Biodiversity Heritage Library Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications in Düsseldorf) was a German medical doctor and writer on medicinal botany. He was the son of pharmacist/medical doctor Johann Erdwin Christoph Ebermaier (1768-1825).
Background In 1824 he received his medical doctorate in Berlin, afterwards settling into a medical practice in Düsseldorf. During his career he served as a medical adviser and as a privy councilor.Google Books Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences médicales: publié sous ..., Volume 66
The plant genus Ebermaiera (family Acanthaceae) is named after him.Google Books The Names of Plants by David Gledhill He collaborated with botanist Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck (1787-1837) on the textbook "Handbuch der medicinisch-pharmaceutischen Botanik".
Written works Plantarum papilionacearum : monographiam medicam, 1824 Ueber den Schwamm der Schädelknochen und die Schwammartigen Auswüchse der harten Hirnhaut, 1829 Erfahrungen und Ansichten über die Erkenntniss und Behandlung des asiatischen Brechdurchfalls, 1832.
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