Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (December 9, 1798 – November 20, 1875) was a German botanist who was a native of Hanover. He studied natural sciences at the University of Göttingen, and in 1818 took a botanical journey through Hungary and Croatia. In 1822, he became a lecturer at Göttingen, where he later became a professor. In 1837, he was appointed director of its botanical garden. With Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe he edited the four exsiccatae Vegetabilia cellularia in Germania septentrionali praesertim in Hercynia et in agro Göttingensi. Ser. A-D (1832-1845). The plant genus Bartlingia from the family Rubiaceae is named in his honor.
Selected publications De litoribus ac insulis maris Liburnici (1820). Ordines naturales plantarum (1830). Flora der österreichischen Küstenländer, (Flora of the Austrian coastal area), (1825). Vegetabilia cellularia in Germania septentrionali praesertim in Hercynia et in agro Gottingensi lecta (1834 and 1836), with Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe (1795–1880).
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Parts of this article are based on a translation of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia. Biography of Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling at the S2A3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science