About Franz Gerhard Eschweiler
Lived 1796 – 1831 (aged 34). Franz Gerhard Eschweiler was a German botanist, physician and secondary school teacher.
Franz Gerhard Eschweiler (1796 – 4 July 1831) was a German botanist.
Eschweiler was born in Cologne in 1796, the son of a district judge. After graduating from high school in Cologne, he first studied law in Bonn, but then switched to natural sciences and continued his studies at the University of Landshut. There he received his doctorate in medicine in 1824.
He then turned to botany and worked on the material collected by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius in Brazil. In recognition of this collaboration, the Brazilian shrub genus Eschweilera was named after him.
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Who was Franz Gerhard Eschweiler?
German botanist (1796-1831)
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Franz Gerhard Eschweiler was born on 10 October 1796 in Cologne.
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Franz Gerhard Eschweiler died on 4 July 1831 in Regensburg.
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Franz Gerhard Eschweiler was a botanist, physician and secondary school teacher.
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Franz Gerhard Eschweiler was German.
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