Heinrich Wydler
Swiss botanist
Died when: 83 years 226 days (1003 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Heinrich Wydler was a Swiss botanist (24 April 1800, in Zurich – 6 December 1883, in Gernsbach.) 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 (keeper) of the de Candolle botanical collections at the University of Geneva (G-DeC), 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. (Apiaceae) was named in his honor.
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