Catharina Helena Dörrien, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Catharina Helena Dörrien

German botanist

Date of Birth: 01-Mar-1717

Place of Birth: Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 08-Jun-1795

Profession: writer, translator, painter, governess, editor, botanist, mycologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Catharina Helena Dörrien (1 March 1717, in Hildesheim – 8 June 1795, in Dillenburg) was a German botanist and teacher, recognized as "the most celebrated German-speaking female naturalist of the period".
She was a talented artist who painted over 1,400 watercolor botanical illustrations, and published a catalogue of plants of the Principality of Orange-Nassau in 1777.
She was also the first woman to name a fungal taxon.