Wilhelm Philippe Schimper
1808
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1880
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
educated at: University of Strasbourg
occupation: botanist, paleontologist, librarian, bryologist, university teacher, biologist, zoologist
position held: museum director
Wilhelm Philippe Schimper (January 12, 1808 – March 20, 1880, in Lichtenberg) was an Alsatian botanist with French, later German citizenship. He was born in Dossenheim-sur-Zinsel, but spent his youth in Offwiller, a village at the foot of the Vosges mountain range in Alsace. He was the father of botanist Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1856–1901), and a cousin to naturalist Karl Friedrich Schimper (1803–1867) and botanist Georg Heinrich Wilhelm Schimper (1804–1878). Source: Wikipedia (en)
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