Sigrid Ahlfild Elisabeth Andersson

Sigrid Elisabet Alfhild (Andersson) Rissler (2 January 1868 – 31 October 1918) was a Swedish botanist known for her work on monocotyledon anatomy. She studied at Stockholms högskola and published her significant work on vascular bundles in monocot stems in 1888, with self-drawn and lithographed plates that were praised for their exceptional technical accuracy. Besides her scientific work, Rissler was also a skilled artist who designed Art Nouveau furniture panels and created textile art, with some of her designs being preserved in Sweden's Nationalmuseum collection.

Biography Sigrid Elisabet Alfhild Andersson was born on 2 January 1868 in Stockholm.

Andersson enrolled at Stockholms högskola in 1885 and completed three years of systematic botany and chemistry under professors V.B. Wittrock and Gustaf Lagerheim; Wittrock later communicated her first paper, on the ontogeny of primary vascular bundles in monocot stems, to the Royal Swedish Academy's proceedings in 1887. Rissler died 31 October 1918 in Stockholm.