Heinrich Rudolph Wullschlägel

Heinrich Rudolf Wullschlägel (1 February 1805, Sarepta, Saratov Governorate, Russian Empire (now part of Volgograd) – 29 March 1864, Berthelsdorf, Germany) was born in the Moravian Colony of Sarepta in Russia and was a Dutch-German bishop, botanist and translator.

Wullschlägel received his primary education in Niesky, Saxony, his theological instruction in Gnadenfeld, Silesia, spent the years 1844-47 on Antigua, 1847-49 in Jamaica, and 1849-1855 in Paramaribo, Surinam as head of the Mission of the Unitas Fratrum - The Moravian Church.

Wullschlägel made extensive botanical collections, which from some botanists are regarded as exsiccata-like with the title Plantae ex insulis Antigua et Jamaica and wrote a dictionary of the Creole language there, as well as on a trip to the Mosquito Coast. He entered the directorate of the Moravian Church in Berthelsdorf near Herrnhut in 1855 and became its bishop in 1857.

Wullschlaegelia Reichenbach fil., a genus of two species of leafless orchids bears his name.

Some species named after him Tabernaemontana wullschlaegelii Anthurium wullschlaegelii Philodendron wullschlaegelii Somphoxylon wullschlaegelii Lepanthes wullschlaegelii Paspalum wullschlaegelii Psychotria wullschlaegelii Pilea wullschlaegelii