Édouard Spach
Édouard Spach was a French botanist.
The son of a merchant in Strasbourg, in 1824 he went to Paris, where he studied botany with René Desfontaines and Antoine Laurent de Jussieu. He then became the secretary of Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel. When de Mirbel became a professor at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, he followed him and remained at the museum for the remainder of his career.
He published many monographs, including Histoire naturelle des végétaux. Phanérogames, and with Hippolyte François Jaubert, Illustrationes plantarum orientalium.
The genus Spachea was named after him by Adrien de Jussieu .
