Otto Christian Blandow

Otto Christian Blandow (5 August 1778, Waren – 15 March 1810, Waren) was a German apothecary and botanist, specializing in the field of bryology.

He trained under Joachim Christian Timm (1734-1805) in Malchin, afterwards working as an apothecary in Rostock, Neubrandenburg, Anklam, Woldegk and Waren.

The genus Blandowia was named in his honor by Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765-1812). He edited two exsiccatae: Musci frondosi exsiccati (1804-1810) and Systematisch-tabellarische Sammlung von Laubmoosen (1808). Since 1875, a collection of his mosses has been kept at the British Museum of Natural History (250 specimens in 5 fascicles).

Publications

 * Index muscorum frondosorum exsiccatorum: fasciculi primi [-quinti], 1804.
 * Systematisch-tabellarische Sammlung von Laubmoosen, 1808 – Systematic-tabular collection of mosses.
 * Uebersicht der Mecklenburgischen Moose nach alphábetischer Ordnung, 1809 – Survey of mosses from Mecklenburg in alphabetical order.