Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff

{{Short description|German botanist and educator (1797–1854)}}

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Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff (21 May 1797 – 11 September 1854) was a German botanist and university professor. He was among the first to examine the reproduction of mosses and liverworts and is credited with coining the terms archegonia and antheridia.

Bischoff was born in Dürkheim and studied botany under Wilhelm Daniel Koch, the author a major flora of Germany, in Kaiserslautern. He then went to the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich in 1819 and then studied botany in Erlangen from 1821. He began to teach in Heidelberg from 1824 and received a habilitation in 1825. He became a professor of botany in 1833 and directed the botanical garden in Heidelberg from 1839. He specialized in the liverworts and mosses coining the terms archegonium and antheridium.{{cite book|url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd118663526.html#ndbcontent|chapter= Bischoff, Gottlieb Wilhelm|title=Deutsche Biographie|volume=2| year=1955| page=263|author=Ziegenspeck, Hermann| lang=de |publisher=Duncker & Humblot|place= Berlin}} Bischoff issued the exsiccata Herbarium normale plantarum officinalium et mercatorium.{{cite web |title=Herbarium normale plantarum officinalium et mercatorium: IndExs ExsiccataID=537087872 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München |url=https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=537087872 |access-date=13 July 2024}}

The genus Bischofia was named after Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff by Karl Blume.{{cite book|title=CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology |author= Quattrocchi, Umberto| publisher= CRC Press| year=2016| page=992}}

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