Heinrich Wullschlägel

Heinrich Wullschlägel

Heinrich Rudolf Wullschlägel was a Dutch-German bishop,botanist and translator. (February 1, 1805, Sarepta, [http://www.russianow.ru/Object.aspx?geo_id=66&ct_id=3307] Russia – March 29, 1864, Berthelsdorf, Germany.) He received his primary education in Niesky, Saxony, his theological instruction in Gnadenfeld, Silesia, spent the years 1844-47 on Antigua, 1847-49 in Jamaica, and 1849-1855 in Paramaribo, Surinam as head of the Mission of the Unitas Fratrum - The Moravian Church. Made extensive botanical collections and wrote a dictionary of the Creole language there, as well as on a trip to the Mosquito Coast. He entered the directorate of the Moravian Church in Berthelsdorf near Herrnhut in 1855 and became it's bishop in 1857.
*"Wullschlaegelia" Reichenbach fil., a genus of two species of leafless orchids bears his name.

After him were named the species
* "Tabernaemontana wullschlaegelii"
* "Anthurium" "wullschlaegelii"
* "Philodendron" "wullschlaegelii"
* "Somphoxylon" "wullschlaegelii"
* "Lepanthes" "wullschlaegelii"
* "Paspalum" "wullschlaegelii"
* "Psychotria" "wullschlaegelii"
* "Pilea" "wullschlaegelii"

*

ources

* Urban, Ignaz, Notae Biographicae, Symbolae Antillanae 3:145,1902.
* [http://www.russianow.ru/Object.aspx?geo_id=66&ct_id=3307]

Complete bibliography

* [http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/search?q=wullschla%CC%88gel&fq=&sd=desc&qt=first_page WorldCat]


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