Heinrich Emanuel Grabowski (11 July 1792 – 1 October 1842) was a German

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and

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of Polish heritage. He was a native of Leobschütz (today known as Glubczyce, Poland). He studied

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as an apprentice in Breslau (Wrocław), and from 1824 until 1840 was manager of his own pharmacy in Oppeln (Opole). He is remembered for his investigations of

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n flora, and also for his studies of fossil flora found in the Oppeln region of Silesia (Opole Silesia). The botanical genus '' Grabowskia'' (

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, 1832) is named after him, as is the species ''

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grabowskii''. With German botanist

Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer __NOTOC__ Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer (October 30, 1803 – March 12, 1868) was a German botanist and educator who was a native of Breslau. From 1821 he studied philology and natural sciences at the University of Breslau, and after comp ...

(1803-1868), he was the author of ''Flora Silesiae'', a three-part work on Silesian flora that was published in two volumes (1827–29). With Johann Christian Carl Günther and C. F. H. Wimmer he distributed an

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-like series of duplicate specimens called ''Schlesische Gewächse''.Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 ''IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae''. Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.

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''. 1792 births 1842 deaths People from Głubczyce People from the Province of Silesia 19th-century German botanists German pharmacists Botanists from the Kingdom of Prussia {{Germany-botanist-stub