August Schenk

Joseph August Schenk (17 April 1815, in Hallein – 30 March 1891, in Leipzig) was an Austrian-born, German botanist and paleobotanist.

In 1840 he earned his PhD in botany at Munich and during the following year, received his habilitation for botany with the dissertation "Genera et species Cyperacearum, quae in regno Graeco, archipelago et in insulis".

[1] The genus Schenkia (family Gentianaceae) was named in honor by August Grisebach in 1853.

[3] With Christian Luerssen, he was co-author of Mittheilungen aus dem Gesammtgebiete der Botanik (Volume 1-2, 1874).

Also, he made contributions towards Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen's "China" (Volume 4),[4] and edited the section on Alstroemeriaceae in Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius' Flora Brasiliensis.