Heinrich Robert Göppert
1800–84
German botanist. Lecturer in medicine and botany at the University of Breslau, 1827–31; professor extraordinarius, 1831–9; professor from 1839. Studied plant physiology and fossil trees. One of the founders of German palaeobotany.
Sources
BHGW
NDB.
Bibliography
BHGW: Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch zur Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften enthaltend Nachweisung über Lebensverhältnisse und Leistungen von Mathematikern, Astronomen, Physikern, Chemikern, Mineralogen, Geologen usw. By Johann Christian Poggendorff. 5 vols. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth; Verlag Chemie. 1863–1926.
NDB: Neue deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 27 vols. (A–Wettiner) to date. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 1953–.
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