Otto Karl Berg

Otto Karl Berg was a German botanist and pharmacist. The official abbreviation of his name, in botany, is O. Berg.
He was the son of Johann Friedrich and Wilhelmine Friederike Berg. He studied pharmaceutical botany at the University of Berlin and published his first Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Botanik as he graduated in 1845. In 1848, he married Caroline Albertine Florentine Witthaus, with whom he had six children.
He joined the faculty of Botany and Pharmacology at the University of Berlin in 1849, where he specialized in South American flora. In 1862 he was appointed associate professor, and during his time in that position, he helped to make an independent discipline of pharmacology.

Works

Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Botanik. 1845Charakteristik der für die Arzneikunde und Technik wichtigsten Pflanzengenera in Illustrationen nebst erläuterndem Text. 1848 Handbuch der pharmaceutischen Botanik. Band 1: Botanik. Nitze, Berlin 2. Aufl. 1850 by the University and State Library Düsseldorf

with Carl Friedrich Schmidt, Darstellung und Beschreibung sämtlicher in den Pharmacopoea Borussica aufgeführten offizinellen Gewächse. 1853Revisio Myrtacearum Americae hucusque cognitarum. 1855Flora Brasiliensis Myrtographia.... 1855Pharmazeutische Warenkunde. 1863 by the University and State Library DüsseldorfAnatomischer Atlas zur pharmazeutischen Warenkunde. 1865Die Chinarinden der pharmakognostischen Sammlung. 1865Atlas der officinellen Pflanzen. Vol.1–4. Felix, Leipzig 2nd ed. 1893–1902 by the University and State Library Düsseldorf