- Christoph Friedrich Hegelmaier
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Christoph Friedrich Hegelmaier (1833–1906) was a German physician and botanist who was a native of Sulzbach, Baden-Württemberg.
In 1857 he earned his doctorate from the University of Tübingen, and later was a military doctor in Ulm. In 1864 he received his habilitation at Tübingen, where in 1866 he became an associate professor of botany.
Hegelmaier was an authority on the plant family Lemnaceae, and in 1868 published the treatise Die Lemnaceen: Eine monographische Untersuchung.
References
- Bryophytes H (Collectors Index Herbarium) (biographical information)
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