Mühlhausen
Mühlhausen () is a city in the north-west of Thuringia, Germany, north of Niederdorla, the country's geographical centre, north-west of Erfurt, east of Kassel and south-east of Göttingen.
Mühlhausen was first mentioned in 967 and ...
– 18 June 1853 in
Berlin
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botanical name
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.
He received his education at the Universities of
Greifswald
Greifswald (), officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (german: Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, Low German: ''Griepswoold'') is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostoc ...
and Breslau, earning his habilitation in 1848 at Berlin. He died on 18 June 1853 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The plant genus ''Walpersia'' (synonym ''
Phyllota
''Phyllota'' is an Australian genus from the family Fabaceae
The Fabaceae or Leguminosae,GRIN Taxonomy for Plants Walpersia Harv.