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

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; worked at the

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in 1828-30; was curator (keeper) of the de Candolle botanical collections at the

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(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. (

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) was named in his honor.

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Sources

Allgemeine deutsche Biographie
* Urban, Ignaz, Notae Biographicae, Symbolae Antillanae 3:146,1902.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wydler, Heinrich Botanists with author abbreviations 1800 births 1883 deaths 19th-century Swiss botanists Botanists active in the Caribbean