Chrétien Géofroy Nestler, name also given as Christian Gottfried Nestler (1 March 1778,

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– 2 October 1832), was a

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and

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from Alsace. He studied under

Louis Claude Richard Louis Claude Marie Richard (19 September 1754 – 6 June 1821) was a French botanist and botanical illustration, botanical illustrator. Biography Richard was born at Versailles (city), Versailles. Between 1781 and 1789 he collected botanical s ...

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, and in 1806–1810 served as a military pharmacist. He was later a professor of botany to the faculty of medicine at the

University of Strasbourg The University of Strasbourg (, Unistra) is a public research university located in Strasbourg, France, with over 52,000 students and 3,300 researchers. Founded in the 16th century by Johannes Sturm, it was a center of intellectual life during ...

and a chief pharmacist of Strasbourg hospices. In 1816 he was appointed director of the

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at Strasbourg. Together with Jean-Baptiste Mougeot, Antoine Mougeot and

Wilhelm Philippe Schimper Wilhelm Philippe Schimper (January 12, 1808 – March 20, 1880, in Lichtenberg, Bas-Rhin, Lichtenberg) was an Alsace, Alsatian botanist with French, later German citizenship. He was born in Dossenheim-sur-Zinsel, but spent his youth in Offwiller ...

he edited some exsiccatae, among them ''Stirpes cryptogamae Vogeso-Rhenanae; quas in Rheni superioris inferiorisque, nec non Vogesorum praefecturis collegerunt'' (1843–1854).Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2025 ''IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae''. – Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany. As a

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, he described a number of species within the genus ''

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''. The genus '' Nestlera'' (family

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) was named in his honor by

Kurt Sprengel Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (3 August 1766 – 15 March 1833) was a German botanist and physician who published an influential multivolume history of medicine, ''Versuch einer pragmatischen Geschichte der Arzneikunde'' (1792–99 in four vol ...

Written works

* "Monographia de Potentilla præmissis nonnullis observationibus circa familiam Rosacearum". (1816). * "Index plantarum quae in horto Academ. Argentinensi anno 1817 viguerunt" (1818). * ''Notice sur le Sedum repens'' (1830). * "Index alphabeticus: generum, specierum et synonymorum", with Jean-Baptiste Mougeot and

(1843). * "Stirpes cryptogamæ vogeso-rhenanæ: quas in Rheni superioris inferiorisque, nec non Vogesorum præfecturis", with Jean-Baptiste Mougeot and Wilhelm-Philippe Schimper (1854). English Wikisource (published works)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nestler, Chretien Geofroy 1778 births 1832 deaths Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg 19th-century French botanists French pharmacists People from Alsace