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.^[1]

The plant genus Bartlingia from the family Rubiaceae is named in his honor.^[2]

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).