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Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers

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Name
  
Wilhelm Walpers

Role
  
Botanist

Died
  
1853, Berlin, Germany


Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers (26 December 1816 in Mühlhausen – 18 June 1853 in Berlin) was a German botanist. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Walp. when citing a botanical name.

He received his education at the Universities of Greifswald and Breslau, earning his habilitation in 1848 at Berlin. He died on June 18, 1853 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The plant genus Walpersia (synonym Phyllota) is named after him.

Selected pubplications

  • Repertorium botanices systematicæ (six volumes, 1842-1847).
  • Walpers, Wilhelm Gerhard (1848–1868). "Annales botanices systematicae (7 vols.)" (in Latin). Leipzig. Retrieved 12 March 2016. 

    • References

    Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers Wikipedia
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