Georg Andreas Helwing
Georg Andreas Helwing was a botanist and Lutheran pastor.
Helwing was born in Angerburg in Brandenburg-Prussia's Duchy of Prussia. He became a "remote member" of the Prussian Academy of Sciences on 31 August 1709.
Helwing discovered and introduced several plants: Helwingia is named after him. He became known as the Tournefortius Borussicus and Prussian Plinius.
In 1999, the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn was founded with reference to him.
It has also been suggested that Georg Andreas Helwing was the inspiration for the character Abraham Van Helsing in Bram Stoker's famous novel Dracula.
