Heinrich Wullschlägel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Heinrich Wullschlägel

bishop, botanist, translator

Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1805

Place of Birth: Old Sarepta, Volgograd Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 29-Mar-1864

Profession: priest, translator, botanist, linguist

Nationality: Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Heinrich Rudolf Wullschlägel (February 1, 1805, Sarepta, Saratov Governorate, Russian Empire (now part of Volgograd) – March 29, 1864, Berthelsdorf, Germany) was born in the Moravian Colony of Sarepta in Russia and was a Dutch-German bishop, botanist and translator. Wullschlägel received his primary education in Niesky, Saxony, his theological instruction in Gnadenfeld, Silesia, spent the years 1844-47 on Antigua, 1847-49 in Jamaica, and 1849-1855 in Paramaribo, Surinam as head of the Mission of the Unitas Fratrum - The Moravian Church. Wullschlägel made extensive botanical collections and wrote a dictionary of the Creole language there, as well as on a trip to the Mosquito Coast.
He entered the directorate of the Moravian Church in Berthelsdorf near Herrnhut in 1855 and became its bishop in 1857. Wullschlaegelia Reichenbach fil., a genus of two species of leafless orchids bears his name.