Friedrich Wilms, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Friedrich Wilms

German botanist

Date of Birth: 19-Apr-1848

Place of Birth: Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 02-Mar-1919

Profession: university teacher, botanist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Friedrich Wilms

  • Friedrich Wilms (19 April 1848 Münster, Westphalia - 2 March 1919 Berlin-Steglitz), was a German apothecary, botanical collector and traveller. Wilms voyaged to South Africa on the same boat as Bachmann, arriving in Cape Town on 4 July 1883.
  • Bachmann disembarked and Wilms sailed on to Durban.
  • He travelled by train to Pietermaritzburg where he started collecting.
  • From here he made use of an ox-wagon to get to Greytown and northwest to Ladysmith, crossing the Natal Drakensberg at Laing's Nek on 17 November 1883.
  • From here he travelled north to Pretoria, east to Bronkhorstspruit and further east to Lydenburg which was to be his headquarters for the next 13 years.
  • Using Lydenburg as his base, he made a number of collecting trips.
  • He also ventured through the malaria-infested coastal flats of Portuguese East Africa to reach Delagoa Bay, choosing the winter season when there were fewer mosquitoes about.
  • In 1896 he returned to Germany with an extensive collection of mosses, lichens, ferns and phanerogams.
  • His paper of 1898 entitled "Ein botanischer Ausflug ins Boerenland" which appeared in Verh.
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  • Brandenb., included interesting observations on the vegetation. Wilms was later appointed as an assistant in the moss section of the Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem and was also closely involved in the taxonomy of specimens collected by August Gottlieb Hans Rudatis.
  • He is commemorated in numerous specific names such as Kirkia wilmsii Engl., Melolobium wilmsii Harms, Argyrolobium wilmsii Harms, Streptocarpus wilmsii Engl., Polygala wilmsii Chodat, Salix wilmsii Seem.
  • and Lejeunea wilmsii Steph.

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