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Nathaniel Wallich

Nathaniel Wulff Wallich
Portrait of Wallich
Wallich, from an old lithograph by T. H. Maguire
Born
Nathan ben Wulff

(1786-01-28)28 January 1786
Copenhagen, Denmark
Died28 April 1854(1854-04-28) (aged 68)
London, England
Alma materRoyal Academy of Surgeons
Known for
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Author abbrev. (botany)Wall.[1]

Nathaniel Wolff Wallich FRS FRSE (28 January 1786 – 28 April 1854) was a surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India, initially in the Danish settlement near Calcutta and later for the Danish East India Company and the British East India Company. He was involved in the early development of the Calcutta Botanical Garden, describing many new plant species and developing a large herbarium collection which was distributed to collections in Europe. Several of the plants that he collected were named after him.

  1. ^ Brummitt, R. K.; C. E. Powell (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4.

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