Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn

German botanist

Date of Birth: 26-Oct-1809

Place of Birth: Mansfeld, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Date of Death: 24-Apr-1864

Profession: photographer, physician, geologist, geographer, botanist, volcanologist

Nationality: Netherlands, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Friedrich Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (October 26, 1809 in Mansfeld, Germany – April 24, 1864 in Lembang, Bandung, West Java), was a German-Dutch botanist and geologist.
His father, Friedrich Junghuhn was a barber and a surgeon.
His mother was Christine Marie Schiele.
Junghuhn studied medicine in Halle and in Berlin from 1827 to 1831, meanwhile (1830) publishing a seminal paper on mushrooms in Limnaea.
Ein Journal für Botanik.