Chrétien Géofroy Nestler, name also given as Christian Gottfried Nestler (1 March 1778,

Strasbourg Strasbourg (, , ; german: Straßburg ; gsw, label=Bas Rhin Alsatian, Strossburi , gsw, label=Haut Rhin Alsatian, Strossburig ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the Eu ...

– 2 October 1832), was an Alsatian

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and

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. He studied under Louis Claude Richard in

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, and in 1806–1810 served as a military pharmacist. He was later a professor of botany to the faculty of medicine at the

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and a chief pharmacist of Strasbourg hospices. In 1816 he was appointed director of the

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at Strasbourg. As a taxonomist, he described a number of species within the genus ''

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''. The genus ''

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'' (family

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) was named in his honor by Kurt Sprengel.

Written works

* "Monographia de Potentilla præmissis nonnullis observationibus circa familiam Rosacearum". (1816). * "Index plantarum quae in horto Academ. Argentinensi anno 1817 viguerunt" (1818). * ''Notice sur le Sedum repens'' (1830). * "Index alphabeticus: generum, specierum et synonymorum", with Jean-Baptiste Mougeot and

Wilhelm Philippe Schimper Wilhelm Philippe Schimper (January 12, 1808 – March 20, 1880, in Lichtenberg) was an Alsatian botanist with French, later German citizenship. He was born in Dossenheim-sur-Zinsel, but spent his youth in Offwiller, a village at the foot of the ...

(1843). * "Stirpes cryptogamæ vogeso-rhenanæ: quas in Rheni superioris inferiorisque, nec non Vogesorum præfecturis", with Jean-Baptiste Mougeot and Wilhelm-Philippe Schimper (1854). English Wikisource (published works)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nestler, Chretien Geofroy 1778 births 1832 deaths Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg 19th-century French botanists French pharmacists Alsatian people