Heinrich Rudolf Wullschlägel (1 February 1805,

Sarepta Sarepta (near modern Sarafand, Lebanon) was a Phoenician city on the Mediterranean coast between Sidon and Tyre, also known biblically as Zarephath. It became a bishopric, which faded, and remains a double (Latin and Maronite) Catholic titula ...

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(now part of

Volgograd Volgograd,. formerly Tsaritsyn. (1589–1925) and Stalingrad. (1925–1961), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The city lies on the western bank of the Volga, covering an area of , with a population ...

) – 29 March 1864,

Berthelsdorf Berthelsdorf () is a former municipality in the district of Görlitz, in the southeastern part of Saxony, Germany. On 1 January 2013, it was incorporated into the town of Herrnhut.Dutch Dutch or Nederlands commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands ** Dutch people as an ethnic group () ** Dutch nationality law, history and regulations of Dutch citizenship () ** Dutch language () * In specific terms, i ...

-German bishop,

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

and translator. Wullschlägel received his primary education in

Niesky Niesky (; Polish and Sorbian: ''Niska'' ; ) is a small town in Upper Lusatia in eastern Saxony, Germany. It has a population of about 9,200 (2020) and is part of the district of Görlitz. Historically considered part of Upper Lusatia, it was a ...

, Saxony, his theological instruction in Gnadenfeld,

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, spent the years 1844-47 on

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, 1847-49 in

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, and 1849-1855 in

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, Surinam as head of the Mission of the Unitas Fratrum - The Moravian Church. Wullschlägel made extensive botanical collections, which from some botanists are regarded as

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-like with the title ''Plantae ex insulis Antigua et Jamaica'' and wrote a dictionary of the

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there, as well as on a trip to the

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. He entered the directorate of the

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in Berthelsdorf near

Herrnhut Herrnhut (; ; ; Upper Lusatian: ''Harrnhutt'', ''Harrnutt'') is a town of around 6,000 inhabitants in Upper Lusatia, in the district of Görlitz, in eastern Saxony, Germany. The town is mainly known as the place of origin of the community of t ...

in 1855 and became its bishop in 1857. * '' Wullschlaegelia'' Reichenbach fil., a genus of two species of leafless orchids bears his name.

Some species named after him

* '' Tabernaemontana wullschlaegelii'' * ''

Anthurium ''Anthurium'' (; Schott, 1829) is a genus of about 1,000Mantovani, A. and T. E. Pereira. (2005)''Anthurium'' (section ''Urospadix''; subsection ''Flavescentiviridia'').''Rodriguesia'' 56(88), 145–60. species of flowering plants, the largest g ...

'' ''wullschlaegelii'' * ''

Philodendron ''Philodendron'' is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. , the Plants of the World Online accepted 621 species; other sources accept different numbers. Regardless of number of species, the genus is the second-largest member o ...

'' ''wullschlaegelii'' * '' Somphoxylon'' ''wullschlaegelii'' * ''

Lepanthes ''Lepanthes'' (from Greek "scaled-flower") is a large genus of orchids with about 800–1000 species, distributed in the Antilles and from Mexico through Bolivia (with very few species in Brazil). The genus is abbreviated in horticultural trade a ...

'' ''wullschlaegelii'' * ''

Paspalum ''Paspalum'' is a genus of plants in the grass family. The group is widespread across much of Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas. Commonly known as paspalum, bahiagrasses, crowngrasses or dallis grasses, many of the species are tall per ...

'' ''wullschlaegelii'' * ''

Psychotria ''Psychotria'' is a large genus of flowering plants in the coffee family Rubiaceae, with over 1,600 species. The genus has a pantropical distribution and members of the genus are small understorey trees in tropical forests. Some species are endan ...

'' ''wullschlaegelii'' * ''

Pilea ''Pilea'', with 600–715 species, is the largest genus of flowering plants in the nettle family (botany), family Urticaceae. It is distributed throughout the tropics, subtropics, and warm temperate regions (with the exception of Australia and N ...

'' ''wullschlaegelii''

Sources

* Urban, Ignaz, ''Notae Biographicae, Symbolae Antillanae'' 3:145,1902.

Bibliography

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