Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck was a prolific German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Linnaeus. He described approximately 7,000 plant species. His last official act as president of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina was to admit Charles Darwin as a member. He was the author of numerous monographs on botany and zoology and majority of his best-known works deal with fungi.
Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link was a German naturalist and botanist. The standard author abbreviation Link is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Friedrich Ernst Ludwig Fischer was a Russian botanist, born in the Holy Roman Empire. He was director of the St Petersburg botanical garden from 1823 to 1850.
Karl Anton Eugen Prantl, also known as Carl Anton Eugen Prantl, was a German botanist.
Alexander Carl Heinrich Braun was a German botanist from Regensburg, Bavaria. His research centered on the morphology of plants and was a very influential teacher who worked as a professor of botany at the universities of Freiburg, Giessen, and Berlin at various times. He was also the director of the Berlin Botanical Garden.
Paul Friedrich August Ascherson was a German botanist. His author citation is Asch., although Aschers. has been used in the past.
Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer, was a Bavarian taxonomist and botanist.
Ludolph Christian Treviranus was a German botanist born in Bremen. He was a younger brother to naturalist Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (1776–1837).
Friedrich Karl Max Vierhapper was an Austrian plant collector, botanist and professor of botany at the University of Vienna. He was the son of amateur botanist Friedrich Vierhapper (1844–1903), botanical abbreviation- "F.Vierh.".
Johannes Ludwig Emil Robert von Hanstein was a German botanist who was a native of Potsdam.
Ernst Hans Ludwig Krause was a German physician, botanist and mycologist.
Emil Friedrich August WalterMigula was a German botanist.
Gustav Heynhold was a German botanist who worked at the botanic gardens of Dresden and Frankfurt.
Gustav Hegi was a Swiss botanist. His name is particularly associated with editing the multi-volume work Illustrierte Flora von Mittel-Europa, which is one of the most comprehensive floras in the World. It contains extensive morphological, ecological and phytogeographical of all plant species occurring in Central Europe.
Eduard Fischer was a Swiss botanist and mycologist.
Maximilian (Max) Westermaier was a German botanist.
Joseph August Schenk was an Austrian-born, German botanist and paleobotanist.
Ludwig Karl Eduard Schneider was a German politician and botanist, known for his studies of flora native to what is now called Saxony-Anhalt.
Elias Landolt (1926–2013) was a Swiss geobotanist, known for his publications on Switzerland's native flora and Lemnoideae.
Alexander Grigorievich Fischer von Waldheim was a German-born Russian botanist. He was the son of the naturalist Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim and father of the botanist Alexandr Alexandrovich Fischer von Waldheim.
