page_title: Heinrich Moritz Willkomm
hierarchical_section_title: Heinrich Moritz Willkomm
caption_attribution_description: The picture shows Heinrich Moritz Willkomm, a german biologist.
context_page_description: Heinrich Moritz Willkomm was a German academic and botanist. The standard author abbreviation Willk. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
  He studied medicine at the University of Leipzig, later being named a professor of natural history in Tharandt. In 1868 he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical garden at the University of Dorpat, and from 1874 to 1892, maintained similar roles at the University of Prague.
  In 1844-45 and 1850-51 he collected plants in Spain and Portugal. His main herbarium from these expeditions is kept in Coimbra and his personal herbarium was taken to Genoa. Following his tenure at Dorpat, he embarked on a scientific excursion to the Balearic Islands.
  The grass genus Willkommia is named in his honor.
context_section_description: Heinrich Moritz Willkomm (June 29, 1821, Herwigsdorf – August 26, 1895, Schloss Wartenberg in Wartenberg am Rollberg, Bohemia) was a German academic and botanist. The standard author abbreviation Willk. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
  He studied medicine at the University of Leipzig, later being named a professor of natural history in Tharandt (1855). In 1868 he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical garden at the University of Dorpat, and from 1874 to 1892, maintained similar roles at the University of Prague.
  In 1844-45 and 1850-51 he collected plants in Spain and Portugal. His main herbarium from these expeditions is kept in Coimbra and his personal herbarium was taken to Genoa. Following his tenure at Dorpat, he embarked on a scientific excursion to the Balearic Islands.
  The grass genus Willkommia (family Poaceae) is named in his honor.
caption: Heinrich Moritz Willkomm
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