Georg Friedrich Schnittspahn

Georg Friedrich Schnittspahn (1810 to 1865) was a German botanist, born and died in Darmstadt, the son of the court gardener Johann August Schnittspahn. He was trained as a gardener in Darmstadt and in 1829, with a scholarship from Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse, visited the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. From 1831 to 1838 he taught botany at the agricultural establishment of Heinrich Wilhelm von Pabst in Kranichstein, and from 1841 he was inspector, and from 1855 director, of the botanical garden in Darmstadt, where he also taught botany and zoology at the Höhere Gewerbschule. In 1845 he cofounded the Natural History Society of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. He wrote a flora of the vascular plants of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and a guide to illustrations of fruit species in the pomological literature of Germany, Belgium, Holland and France.