Georg Wilhelm Schimper
✓ Source-basedrisingGerman botanist (1804-1878)
Georg Heinrich Wilhelm Schimper, in Amharic sources known as Sambar, was a German botanist and naturalist who spent more than forty years in Ethiopia collecting specimens of plants, mainly in Semien, the Tekeze area and around Adwa.
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Georg Heinrich Wilhelm Schimper, in Amharic sources known as Sambar, was a German botanist and naturalist who spent more than forty years in Ethiopia collecting specimens of plants, mainly in Semien, the Tekeze area and around Adwa. Schimper discovered more new African plant species than possibly any other botanist, and numerous plant species bear the epithet Schimperi/Schimperiana.
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