Heinrich Wydler

Botanist, Deceased Person

1800 – 1883

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Who was Heinrich Wydler?

Heinrich Wydler was a Swiss botanist He spent the years 1826-27 on a collecting expedition to the West Indies; worked at the St. Petersburg botanical garden in 1828-30; was curator of the de Candolle botanical collections at the University of Geneva, 1830–4. He worked as a teacher in Geneva and Bern and after his marriage in 1840 settled in Strasbourg.

The now defunct genus Wydleria DC. was named in his honor.

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Born
Apr 24, 1800
Zürich
Nationality
  • Switzerland
Profession
Died
Dec 6, 1883
Gernsbach

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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