Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch
Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch (5 March 1771 – 14 November 1849) was a German physician and
botanist from Kusel, a town in the Rhineland-Palatinate
.
Education
Koch studied medicine at the Universities of
botanical gardens. In 1833, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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Death
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Koch died in Erlangen.[citation needed]
Notable works
Among his better written efforts was a synopsis on German and Swiss flora titled Synopsis florae germanicae et helveticae (1835–37). Another noteworthy publication of his was Catalogus plantarum, quae in ditione Florae Palatinatus (Catalog of Palatinate flora) (1814).
Honours
He has been honoured in the naming of 2 plant
References
- S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ "Definition of Kochia". The Free Dictionary.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. W.D.J.Koch.
- "Koch, Wilhelm", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 16, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1882, pp. 402–405
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