{{short description|Swiss botanist}} [[Image:Heinrich Wydler.jpg|thumbnail|Heinrich Wydler 1800–1883]] '''Heinrich Wydler''' was a [[Swiss people|Swiss]] [[botanist]] (24 April 1800 in [[Zurich]] – 6 December 1883 in [[Gernsbach]].) He spent the years 1826–27 on a collecting expedition to the [[West Indies]]; worked at the [[St. Petersburg]] [[botanical garden]] in 1828-30; was curator (keeper) of the de Candolle botanical collections at the [[University of Geneva]] (G-DeC), 1830–4. He worked as a teacher in Geneva and [[Bern]] and after his marriage in 1840 settled in [[Strasbourg]].
The now defunct genus ''Wydleria'' DC. ([[Apiaceae]]) was named in his honor.
==Complete bibliography== * [http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/search?q=Heinrich+Wydler&fq=ap%3AHeinrich+Wydler&qt=facet_ap%3A WorldCat]
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==Sources== * [https://runeberg.org/nfcl/0647.html Nordisk Familjebok] * [http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Wydler,_Heinrich Allgemeine deutsche Biographie] * Urban, Ignaz, Notae Biographicae, Symbolae Antillanae 3:146,1902.
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