Carl Christian Mez

Carl Christian Mez (26 March 1866 – 8 January 1944) was a German botanist and university professor.

He is denoted by the author abbreviation Mez when citing a botanical name.

[1] Mez came from a family of industrialists in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden.

As a high-school student he was interested in botany, and wrote a technical paper regarding a hybrid Inula.

He first studied at the university in his hometown from 1883 to 1884, and then moved to Berlin for one semester before returning in 1886 to Freiburg.

Grave of Carl Mez in the Freiburg cemetery