Johannes Elias Teijsmann (1808 — 1882) was a Dutch botanist and plant collector. In 1830 he arrived in Java and became the gardener of the Governor General van den Bosch. From 1831 – 1869 he was curator at Buitenzorg Botanic Gardens (Bogor, Java, Indonesia). Johannes Elias Teijsmann took part in many botanical expeditions in the [read more...]

Nathaniel Wallich (1786 – 1854) was a Danish botanist and surgeon. Nathaniel Wallich obtained the diploma of the Royal Academy of Surgeons at Copenhagen in 1807 and was also stuying botany. In the same year he sailed to India and became a surgeon in the Danish settlement at Serampore (former Frederiksnagore) in Bengal …

Curt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1750-1816), born at Boldekow in Pomerani was a German botanist and physician. In 1780, at the age of 20 years, he published his first small work, called Botanik für Frauenzimmer (botany for women). In 1784 he started to study theology and medicine at the university of Halle. Curt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel [read more...]

Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kraenzlin (1847-1934) was a German botanist, who appeared after Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach. He revised several orchid genera and described many new orchids, mostly from South Africa and Central- and South America. His book Orchidacearum Genera et Species has never been finished. Friedrich (Fritz) Wilhelm Ludwig Kraenzlin has been associated with the Natural [read more...]

William Roxburgh (1751 – 1815) was a Scottish botanist and surgeon. He studied medicine and botany in Edinburgh and had been a surgeon’s mate on an East India Company ship. At the age of just 21 years he already undertook 2 voyages to India. He worked at the Madras Medical Service as an assistant surgeon [read more...]

Otto Warburg (1859 – 1938), not to be confused with his distant cousin Otto Heinrich Warburg, a Nobel Prize Laureate, was a German botanist and agriculture expert. Otto Warburg was also Zionist and from 1911 – 1921 he was president of the Zionist Organisation. He studied natural sciences (botany, chemistry and zoology) in Bonn, …

The French botanist Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré (1789 – 1854) was born at 04.09.1789 in the capital of the southwestern French department Charente, Angoulême. He studied pharmacology, chemistry and herbology at Cognac and Angoulême. From 1817 to 1820 he was the serving botanist on a circumglobal expedition. In the year 1831 Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré sailed to South America [read more...]