Heinrich Wullschlägel

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Heinrich Rudolf Wullschlägel was a Dutch-German bishop,botanist and translator. (February 1, 1805, Sarepta,[1] Russia – March 29, 1864, Berthelsdorf, Germany.) He received his primary education in Niesky, Saxony, his theological instruction in Gnadenfeld, Silesia, spent the years 1844-47 on Antigua, 1847-49 in Jamaica, and 1849-1855 in Paramaribo, Surinam as head of the Mission of the Unitas Fratrum - The Moravian Church. Made extensive botanical collections and wrote a dictionary of the Creole language there, as well as on a trip to the Mosquito Coast. He entered the directorate of the Moravian Church in Berthelsdorf near Herrnhut in 1855 and became it's bishop in 1857.

• Wullschlaegelia Reichenbach fil., a genus of two species of leafless orchids bears his name.

After him were named the species

• Tabernaemontana wullschlaegelii
• Anthurium wullschlaegelii
• Philodendron wullschlaegelii
• Somphoxylon wullschlaegelii
• Lepanthes wullschlaegelii
• Paspalum wullschlaegelii
• Psychotria wullschlaegelii
• Pilea wullschlaegelii

• The standard author abbreviation Wullschl. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

[edit] Sources

• Urban, Ignaz, Notae Biographicae, Symbolae Antillanae 3:145,1902.
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[edit] Complete bibliography

• WorldCat