Lorenz Chrysanth von Vest

{{short description|Austrian physician and botanist}}

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Lorenz Chrysanth Edler von Vest (18 November 1776, in Klagenfurt – 15 December 1840, in Graz) was an Austrian physician and botanist.

He studied medicine in Vienna and at the University of Freiburg, where he received his doctorate in 1798. After a stint in the military, he settled into a medical practice in his hometown of Klagenfurt (1800). From 1804 to 1812 he taught classes in theoretical and practical medicine at the lyceum in Klagenfurt, and afterwards worked as a professor of botany and chemistry at the Johanneum in Graz. In 1829 he was appointed chief regional physician and health advisor to the Styrian government.[https://books.google.com/books?id=1NVRfl4gCw0C&dq=%22Vest%2C+Lorenz+Chrysanth%22+1776&pg=PA207 Thibaut - Zycha] / edited by Walther Killy Dictionary of German Biography[https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Vest,_Lorenz_Chrysanth_Edler_von ADB:Vest, Lorenz Chrysanth Edler von] In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, S. 651–653.

In 1809 the plant genus Vestia (family Solanaceae) was named on his honor by Carl Ludwig Willdenow.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33212758#page/727/mode/1up BHL] Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications