Friedrich Martin Josef (Friedrich) Welwitsch
1806–72
Austrian-born botanist. Resided in Lisbon, 1839–53, where he became director of the botanic garden at Coimbra. Collected and travelled in Portuguese West Africa (Angola), 1853–61. Resided in London, 1863–72.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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