Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer

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Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer (October 30, 1803 – March 12, 1868) was a German botanist and educator who was a native of Breslau.

He worked as a Schulrat (education official) in Breslau, and was the author of several publications on Silesian flora. He specialized in the study of the willow genus Salix. The plant genus Wimmeria within the family Celastraceae is named after him.

In 1866, Wimmer published an edition on the ancient Greek naturalist Theophrastus, titled Theophrasti Eresii Opera quae supersunt omnia.

Selected writings

• Flora Silesiae (Silesian flora), with Heinrich Emanuel Grabowski (1792–1842), from 1827 to 1829.
• Flora von Schlesien (Flora of Silesia), 1832.
• Phytologiae Aristotelicae fragmenta, 1838.
• Flora von Schlesien preußischen und österreichischen Antheils (Flora of Silesian, Prussian and Austrian Antheils), 1840; second edition- 1844, third edition- 1857.
• Theophrasti Eresii Opera quae supersunt omnia, 1866
• Salices europaeae, 1866.

References

• [1] translated biography at Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
• [2] WorldCat Identities, List of publications
• Parts of this article are based on a translation of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.

External links

• Works by or about Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer at Wikisource