Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German botanist
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Place of Birth: Mühlhausen, Thuringia, Germany
About Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers
- Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers (26 December 1816 in Mühlhausen – 18 June 1853 in Berlin) was a German botanist.
- This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Walp.
- when citing a botanical name.He received his education at the Universities of Greifswald and Breslau, earning his habilitation in 1848 at Berlin.
- He died on 18 June 1853 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.The plant genus Walpersia (synonym Phyllota) is named after him.
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