Heinrich Wydler
Heinrich Wydler was a Swiss botanist
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 of the de Candolle botanical collections at the University of Geneva, 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. was named in his honor.
