Franz Gerhard Eschweiler

{{Short description|German botanist (1796–1831)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}} {{Use British English|date=September 2022}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Franz Gerhard Eschweiler | image = | caption = | birth_date = 1796 | birth_place = [[Cologne]], [[Holy Roman Empire]] | death_date = 4 July 1831 | death_place = | resting_place = | fields = Botany | workplaces = | alma_mater = [[University of Landshut]] | author_abbrev_bot = Eschw.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ipni.org/a/18544-1 |title=Eschweiler, Franz Gerhard (Franciscus Gerardus) (1796-1831) |publisher=[[International Plant Names Index]] |access-date=27 September 2022}}</ref> }}

'''Franz Gerhard Eschweiler''' (1796 – 4 July 1831) was a German [[botanist]].

Eschweiler was born in [[Cologne]] in 1796, the son of a district judge. After graduating from high school in Cologne, he first studied law in [[Bonn]], but then switched to [[natural science]]s and continued his studies at the [[University of Landshut]]. There he received his doctorate in medicine in 1824.

He then turned to botany and worked on the material collected by [[Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius]] in Brazil. In recognition of this collaboration, the Brazilian shrub genus ''[[Eschweilera]]'' was named after him.<ref name="Nachruf"/>

Eschweiler worked in the [[Regensburg Botanical Society]] and from 1827 received a teaching position as a lecturer in natural history at the Royal Lyceum in Regensburg.<ref name="Bresinksy 2005"/> This activity had to be interrupted several times due to his deteriorating health, and he died on 4 July 1831.<ref name="Nachruf"/>

==See also== * [[:Category:Taxa named by Franz Gerhard Eschweiler]]

==References== {{Reflist|refs=

<ref name="Bresinksy 2005">{{cite journal |last1=Bresinksy |first1=Andreas |title=Nach Regensburg und Regensburgern benannte Pflanzen |trans-title=Plants named after Regensburg and Regensburgers |year=2005 |journal=Denkschriften der Königlich-Baierischen Botanischen Gesellschaft in Regensburg |volume=66 |pages=39–51 |language=de |url=https://www.zobodat.at/biografien/Regensburg_Pflanzennamen_Hoppea_2005_66_0039-0051.pdf}}</ref>

<ref name="Nachruf">{{cite journal |last1=anon |title=Dr. Franz Gerhard Eschweiler |year=1963 |journal=Acta Albertina Ratisbonensia |volume=25 |pages=79–80 |language=de |url=https://www.zobodat.at/biografien/Eschweiler_Franz_Gerhard_Acta-Albertina-Ratisbonensia_25_0001-0152-16.pdf}}</ref>

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