Heinrich Wydler was a Swiss botanist (24 April 1800, in Zurich – 6 December 1883, in Gernsbach.) He spent the years 1826-27 on a collecting expedition to the West Indies; worked at the St. Petersburg botanical garden in 1828-30; was curator (keeper) of the de Candolle botanical collections at the University of Geneva (G-DeC), 1830–4. He worked as a teacher in Geneva and Bern and after his marriage in 1840 settled in Strasbourg. The now defunct genus Wydleria DC. (Apiaceae) was named in his honor. Complete bibliography WorldCat Sources Nordisk Familjebok Allgemeine deutsche Biographie Urban, Ignaz, Notae Biographicae, Symbolae Antillanae 3:146,1902. References Botanists with author abbreviations 1800 births 1883 deaths 19th-century Swiss botanists Botanists active in the Caribbean