Benjamin Peter Gloxin
Benjamin Peter Gloxin (1765–1794) was a German physician and botanical writer who lived in Colmar. He is commemorated by the Brazilian genus Gloxinia and Sinningia speciosa, which is commonly called Gloxinia in the horticulture trade. In 1791, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. Works
Observationes Botanicae 1785, Argentorati, Strasbourg. He was honoured in 2005, when botanists (H.E.Moore) Roalson & Boggan named a monotypic genus of a flowering plant from Columba after Gloxin. Gloxinella and its one species, Gloxinella lindeniana. References 

Botanists with author abbreviations
18th-century German botanists
1765 births
1794 deaths
People from Colmar
German botanical writers