Julius von Flotow

Julius von Flotow; full name- Julius Christian Gottlieb Ulrich Gustav Georg Adam Ernst Friedrich von Flotow (9 March 1788 – 15 August 1856) was a German military officer and a botanist specialized in lichenology and bryology.

Von Flotow was born in the village of Pitzerwitz (Pstrowice in Polish) in the region of Neumark.

In 1813, he suffered a serious war injury at the Battle of Lützen, from which he never fully recovered and which led to a partial paralysis of his right arm.

During a military campaign in France (1819), he took the opportunity to study lichens native to the Ardennes Mountains.

He was a recipient of the Iron Cross and was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Breslau in 1856, a week before his death.