Carl August Julius Milde

Not to be confused with Carl Julius Milde, the German painter and art restorer.

Carl August Julius Milde (2 November 1824 – 3 July 1871) was a German bryologist and pteridologist born in Breslau.

Carl August Julius Milde

In 1850 he obtained his medical doctorate from the University of Breslau, where he was a student of Heinrich Göppert (1800–1884). From 1853, he was an Oberlehrer at a Realschule in Breslau.

Milde specialized in research of cryptogams, particularly mosses and ferns. He issued the exsiccata Bryotheca Silesiaca.^[1] The botanical genus Mildella from the family Pteridaceae was named in his honor by Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan.^[2] In 1876, American botanical artist Charles Edward Faxon (1846–1918) published a translation of Milde's Botrychiorum Monographia. Other written works of his include:

• Die höheren Sporenpflanzen Deutschland's und der Schweiz, (The higher spore plants of Germany and Switzerland), 1865.
• Bryologia silesiaca, (Silesian bryology), 1869.

Milde suffered from respiratory ailments for most of his adult life, and died at the age of 46 in Meran, location of a popular spa that he sometimes visited for treatment.