Johannes Jacob Hegetschweiler (4 December 1789,

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– 9 September 1839,

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) was a Swiss physician and botanist. He is remembered for his investigations of

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Biography

In 1809 he studied medicine at the medical-surgical institute in Zurich, followed by medical studies at the

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as a pupil of Johann Heinrich Ferdinand von Autenrieth. While at Tübingen, he also attended lectures in

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given by Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer.Hegetschweiler, Johannes
at Deutsche Biographie Later on, he worked as a physician at the

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hospital in Rheinau, and from 1814 to 1831, he served as a doctor in the town of Stafa.Hegetschweiler, Johannes
Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz From 1831 to 1839 he held various posts with the cantonal government in Zürich. During the so-called

Züriputsch The Züriputsch of 6 September 1839 was a putsch of the rural conservative population against the liberal rule of the city of Zürich on the eve of the formation of the Swiss federal state. The reason for the putsch was the appointment of th ...

of September 6, 1839, as a mediator between government militia and insurrectionists, he was wounded in the head from a bullet fired by the insurgents, and died three days later on September 9. The botanical genus ''Hegetschweilera'' Heer,

Regel Eduard August von Regel (sometimes Edward von Regel or Edward de Regel or Édouard von Regel), Russian: Эдуард Август Фон Регель; (born 13 August 1815 in Gotha; died 15 April 1892 in St. Petersburg) was a German horticultural ...

(1842) commemorates his name, as does taxa with the specific epithet of ''hegetschweileri''.

Published works

Among his better written efforts was an enumeration of Swiss plants, titled ''Beyträge zur einer kritischent aufzählung der Schweizer pflanzen'' (1831), and a new edition of Johann Rudolf Suter's ''Flora Helvetica'' (1822). After his death,

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edited and published Hegetschweiler's ''Flora der Schweiz'' (1840).Flora der Schweiz
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hegetschweiler, Johannes Jacob 1789 births 1839 deaths 19th-century Swiss botanists University of Tübingen alumni People from Affoltern District