Heinrich Wawra von Fernsee


Heinrich Wawra Ritter von Fernsee, born Jindřich Blažej Vávra, was a Czech-Austrian ship surgeon, botanist and explorer.
The youngest of five sons of a miller, he studied medicine and botany at the University of Vienna from 1849 to 1855. Upon graduating he joined the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Navy on December 6, 1855. The commander of the fleet at this time was the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian. Wawra von Fernsee retired from the navy in 1878 to work on his extensive collections.
The plant genus Fernseea was named after him.

Expeditions

Herb. Vienna . Duplicates at Herb. Berlin , Herb. Decand. ); Herb. Bot. Gard. St Petersburg ). Wood samples at Franzens Museum in Brno.

Major publications