Johannes Gaspar Scheuchzer (1684 -1738) was a Swiss
botanist
Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...
and plant collector.
He was the brother of Swiss scholar
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (2 August 1672 – 23 June 1733) was a Swiss scholar born at Zürich.
Herbarium deluvianum
Zürich, Zwingli-Platz ( Grossmünster) : Former home of Konrad von Mure († 1280) and the house, where Johann Jakob Scheuch ...
, both of whom are the namesake of the genus ''
Scheuchzeria''.
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1684 births
1738 deaths
Pre-Linnaean botanists
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