Species Gisekia rubella

For Paul Dietrich Giseke (1741–1796), German botanist, physician, librarian and academic. He studied at the Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg and at the University of Göttingen and graduated in 1764. He went for an extended trip through France and Sweden, where he met Linnaeus, becoming his student and a close friend in Linnaeus’s later years. Back from abroad he settled in Hamburg and started his practice as a physician but in 1771 started became professor of physics and discourse at the Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg (later the University of Hamburg). He authored a number of books and was a contributor/editor of Linnaeus’s Praelectiones in Ordines Naturales Plantarum (Lectures in the Natural Order of Plants) (1792).