Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer
Christian Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer was a German botanist and educator who was a native of Breslau.
From 1821 he studied philology and natural sciences at the University of Breslau, and after completion of studies, taught classes at Friedrichs gymnasium in Breslau. In 1835 he received the title of professor, and from 1863 served as a Schulrat. He was author of several publications on Silesian flora, and specialized in the study of the willow genus Salix. The plant genus Wimmeria within the family Celastraceae is named after him.
In 1854–62 Wimmer published an edition on the ancient Greek naturalist Theophrastus, titled .Selected writings
- Flora Silesiae, with Heinrich Emanuel Grabowski.
- Flora von Schlesien, 1832.
- Phytologiae Aristotelicae fragmenta, 1838.
- Flora von Schlesien preußischen und österreichischen Antheils, 1840; second edition, 1844; third edition, 1857.
- Theophrasti Eresii Opera quae supersunt omnia.
- Salices europaeae, 1866.
