How to Pronounce Catharina Helena Dörrien
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Mar 01, 1717 Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany Died on 08 Jun 1795 (aged 78)
German botanist
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About Catharina Helena Dörrien
- Catharina Helena Dörrien (1 March 1717, in Hildesheim – 8 June 1795, in Dillenburg) was a German botanist and teacher, recognized as "the most celebrated German-speaking female naturalist of the period".
- She was a talented artist who painted over 1,400 watercolor botanical illustrations, and published a catalogue of plants of the Principality of Orange-Nassau in 1777.
- She was also the first woman to name a fungal taxon.
