Wladimir de Schoenefeld (12 January 1816 in

Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...

– 8 September 1875 in

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) was a German-born, French

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 ...

. From 1817 to 1833 he lived in France, then moved back to Berlin, where he stayed with botanist

Karl Sigismund Kunth Carl Sigismund Kunth (18 June 1788 – 22 March 1850) was a German botanist. He was also known as Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth. He was one of the early systematic botanists who focused on studying the plants of th ...

for several years prior to his return to

(1840). In Paris, he studied botany under

Adrien-Henri de Jussieu Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (23 December 1797 – 29 June 1853) was a French botanist. Born in Paris as the son of botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1824 with a treatise of the plant family Eupho ...

and became good friends with

Ernest Cosson Ernest Saint-Charles Cosson (22 July 1819 – 31 December 1889) was a French botanist born in Paris. Cosson is known for his botanical research in North Africa, and during his career he participated in eight trips to Algeria. In several of these ...

.BHL
Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications In 1854 he was a founding member of the ''

Société Botanique de France The Société botanique de France (SBF) is a French learned society founded on 23 April 1854. At its inaugural meeting it stated its purpose as "to contribute to the progress of botany and related sciences and to facilitate, by all means at its di ...

'', serving as its secretary-general from 1862 to 1875. Following his death, Ernest Cosson published the biography, "''Notice biographique sur Wladimir de Schoenefeld''" (1876). The botanical genus ''

Schoenefeldia ''Schoenefeldia'' is a genus of Asian and African plants in the grass family. It contains a single species, ''Schoenefeldia gracilis'', an annual grass native to the Sahara and Sahel The Sahel region (; ), or Sahelian acacia savanna, is a ...

'' (family

Poaceae Poaceae ( ), also called Gramineae ( ), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivate ...

) was named in his honor by Karl Sigismund Kunth.

Published works

* ''Rapport sur une herborisation faite par la Société dans la forêt de Fontainebleau'', 1855 - Report of herborization made by the Société in

Fontainebleau Forest The forest of Fontainebleau (, or , meaning, in old French, "forest of heather") is a mixed deciduous forest lying southeast of Paris, France. It is located primarily in the arrondissement of Fontainebleau in the southwestern part of the departm ...

. * ''Sur un échantillon de Primula officinalis'', 1856 - Involving a sample of

Primula officinalis ''Primula veris'', the cowslip, common cowslip, or cowslip primrose ( syn. ''Primula officinalis'' ), is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the primrose family Primulaceae. The species is native throughout most of temperate Europe and w ...

. * ''Sur Trifolium elegans et T. hybridum'', 1862 - On Trifolium elegans and

Trifolium hybridum ''Trifolium hybridum'', the alsike clover, is a species of flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae. The stalked, pale pink or whitish flower head grows from the leaf axils, and the trifoliate leaves are unmarked. The plant is up to tall, and ...

. * ''Rapport sur une excursion faite en août 1860 par la Société botanique de France'', 1863 - Report on an excursion made in August 1860 by the Société.Société Botanique du Centre-Ouest - Articles - Tela Botanica
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References

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