Franz Xaver Heller
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Franz Xaver Heller (28 December 1778,
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– 20 December 1840) was a German physician and
botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...
. He studied medicine at the
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, graduating in 1800 with doctorates in medicine and
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. In 1803 he became an associate professor at Würzburg, and two years later was appointed a full professor of botany. In 1828 he was named
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of the university. During the same year, he became a corresponding member of the Medico-Botanical Society of London.Botanischer Garten der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
V. Herbarium FX Heller for Flora Wirceburgensis
He is best known as author of the ''Flora Wirceburgensis'' ("Flora of the
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"), published in two parts (1810, 1811), with a supplement issued in 1815. After his death, his
herbarium A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant biological specimen, specimens and associated data used for scientific study. The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sh ...
was passed on to botanist August Schenk (1815-1891). In 1824, the genus ''Helleria'' (family
Humiriaceae Humiriaceae (or, alternatively Houmiriaceae Juss.) is a family of evergreen flowering plants. It comprises 8 genera and 56 known species. The family is exclusively Neotropical, except one species found in tropical West Africa West Africa, al ...
) was named in honor of him and his brother, Georg, by
Nees Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (14 February 1776 – 16 March 1858) was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. ...
and Martius.


Published works

* "Graminum in magno-ducatu Wirceburgensi tam sponte crescentium : quam cultorum enumeratio systematica", 1809. * "Flora Wirceburgensis, sive, Plantarum in Magno-Ducatu Wirceburgensi indigenarum enumeratio systematica", 1810–11. * "Supplementum Florae Wirceburgensis continens Plantarum genera : quaedam atque species in magno-ducatu Wirceburgensi recenter detecta", 1815.OCLC Classify
publications


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Heller, Franz Xaver 1778 births 1840 deaths Physicians from Würzburg Scientists from Würzburg People from the Prince-Bishopric of Würzburg 19th-century German botanists University of Würzburg alumni Academic staff of the University of Würzburg