August Wilhelm Eberhard Christoph Wibel Explained

August Wilhelm Eberhard Christoph Wibel (1775, Ernsbach near Öhringen  - 1814, Wertheim am Main) was a German physician and botanist.

He was a student at the University of Jena, earning his medical doctorate in 1797.[1] Later, he worked as a physician in the city of Wertheim am Main.[2]

He described a number of plant species,[3] and is the taxonomic authority of the genus Sciophila (family Liliaceae).[4] The fern genus Wibelia (family Davalliaceae) was named in his honor by Johann Jakob Bernhardi.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066597#page/317/mode/1up Biodiversity Heritage Library
  2. http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/187074.html Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - W
  3. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_authorAbbrev=Wibel&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query IPNI
  4. http://botany.si.edu/ing/INGsearch.cfm?SearchWord=sciophila Index Nominum Genericorum database
  5. https://books.google.com/books?id=zIOvJSJs-IkC&dq=%22Wibel%22+Wibelia&pg=PA2830 CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: R-Z
  6. http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22August+Wilhelm+Eberhard+Christoph+Wibel%22 Google Search