Ferdinand Lindheimer
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Ferdinand Jacob Lindheimer was a German Texan botanist who spent his working life on the American frontier. In 1936, Recorded Texas Historic Landmark number 1590 was placed on Lindheimer's grave.
Ferdinand Lindheimer from Goethe im Lichte der Vererbungslehre (1908)
The Lindheimer House, New Braunfels, Texas
George Engelmann
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George Engelmann, also known as Georg Engelmann, was a German-American botanist. He was instrumental in describing the flora of the west of North America, then very poorly known to Europeans; he was p
Ferdinand Lindheimer
…During the late 1830s and early 1840s, Lindheimer collected botanic specimens in Texas, part of this time for Dr. Asa Gray of Harvard University. With George Engelmann and A. Gray he edited the exsiccata-like series Lindheimer Flora Texana exsiccata. Lindheimer persuaded Wilhelm Bruckisch of the Silesian Beekeepers…
George Engelmann botanist