Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde

Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde was a German botanist.

Biography
Fedde was born on June 30, 1873 in Breslau, Germany (now known as Wrocław. He studied natural sciences, beginning in 1892, and graduating in 1896. He was a teacher in schools of higher learning in Breslau, Tarnowitz, and Berlin. Fedde became associate at the Berlin Botanical Museum in 1901, and a professor in 1912. He participated in several trips to the Mediterranean, Finland, and Russia. He mainly worked with plant systematics and biogeography. His renown rests on publication of the Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis and Beihefte for longer monographs.

The genus, Feddea was named in his honor by German botanist, Ignatz Urban.

When citing a botanical name, Friedrich Karl Georg Fedde is abbreviated as Fedde.