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Birth | 2 December 1780 | |
Death | 13 January 1872 (aged 91 years) |
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Otto II. Freiherr von Münchhausen (11 June 1716 – 13 July 1774) was a German botanist. He was Chancellor of University of Göttingen and a correspondent of Linnaeus. He named several species of oaks by the Linnean system, as well as other plants.
The standard botanical author abbreviation Münchh. is applied to species he described.