Heinrich Wydler was a Swiss botanist (24 April 1800, Zurich

Zürich

Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...

 – 6 December 1883, Gernsbach

Gernsbach

Gernsbach is a town in the district of Rastatt, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located on the river Murg, east of Baden-Baden in the Black Forest. Twin towns are Baccarat in France and Pergola, Marche in Italy....

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He spent the years 1826-27 on a collecting expedition to the West Indies; worked at the St. Petersburg botanical garden

Botanical garden

A botanical garden The terms botanic and botanical, and garden or gardens are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word botanic is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens. is a well-tended area displaying a wide range of plants labelled with their botanical names...

 in 1828-30; was curator (keeper) of the de Candolle botanical collections at the University of Geneva

University of Geneva

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 (G-DeC), 1830–4. He worked as a teacher in Geneva and Bern and after his marriage in 1840 settled in Strasbourg

Strasbourg

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The now defunct genus Wydleria DC. (Apiaceae

Apiaceae

The Apiaceae , commonly known as carrot or parsley family, is a group of mostly aromatic plants with hollow stems. The family is large, with more than 3,700 species spread across 434 genera, it is the sixteenth largest family of flowering plants...

) was named in his honor.

Complete bibliography

• WorldCat

Sources

• Nordisk Familjebok
• Allgemeine deutsche Biographie
• Urban, Ignaz, Notae Biographicae, Symbolae Antillanae 3:146,1902.