Karl Bartholomaeus Heller Explained

Karl Bartholomaeus^[1] Heller (20 November 1824 – 14 December 1880) was an Austrian botanist and naturalist who explored Mexico in 1845–48 and published his memoir.^[2] In the latter year Johann Jakob Heckel published the livebearing freshwater Green swordtail (Xiphophorus helleri), since the early 20th century a common aquarium fish, from specimens Heller deposited in Vienna. Born in Moravia, Heller was a professor at the Theresianum in Vienna. Among Heller's later works is his defense of Darwinism, Darwin und der Darwinismus, 1869.

Notes and References

1. Carl Bartholomäus is an alternative spelling.
2. The English translation of his account of his journeys, Reisen in Mexico in den Jahren 1845–48 (1853) is Terry Rugeley, tr. and ed., Alone in Mexico : The Astonishing Travels of Karl Heller, 1845–1848. which is volume 40 of Latin American Studies