Anton Ortmann (19 March 1801, in Plan – 21 November 1861, in Elbogen) was a Bohemian-Austrian pharmacist and botanist, known for his investigations of flora native to Bohemia, notably in the environs of Karlsbad and Elbogen.

During his career, he worked as a pharmacist in Karlsbad and later Elbogen (since 1842). From 1857 to 1861 he served as mayor of Elbogen.[1][2] The plant genus Ortmannia (family Orchidaceae) was named in honor by Philipp Maximilian Opiz.[3]

Publications

• Beobachtungen über einige Pflanzen, welche in der Umgebung von Karlsbad oder in Böhmen überhaupt vorkommen, in: Allgemeine Botanische Zeitung 18, (1835).
• Flora Carlsbadensis, in: L. Fleckle, Karlsbad, (1838).
• Flora des Elbogner Kreises im Königreich Böhmen, (1842) – Flora of the Elbogen circle in the Kingdom of Bohemia.
• Die Flora von Karlsbad, in: Der Führer in Karlsbad und der Umgegend, (5th edition, 1850) – The flora of Karlsbad.[1]

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