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Feb 01, 1805 Old Sarepta, Volgograd Oblast, Russia Died on 29 Mar 1864 (aged 59)
bishop, botanist, translator
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About Heinrich Wullschlägel
- Heinrich Rudolf Wullschlägel (February 1, 1805, Sarepta, Saratov Governorate, Russian Empire (now part of Volgograd) – March 29, 1864, Berthelsdorf, Germany) was born in the Moravian Colony of Sarepta in Russia and was a Dutch-German bishop, botanist and translator. Wullschlägel received his primary education in Niesky, Saxony, his theological instruction in Gnadenfeld, Silesia, spent the years 1844-47 on Antigua, 1847-49 in Jamaica, and 1849-1855 in Paramaribo, Surinam as head of the Mission of the Unitas Fratrum - The Moravian Church. Wullschlägel made extensive botanical collections and wrote a dictionary of the Creole language there, as well as on a trip to the Mosquito Coast.
- He entered the directorate of the Moravian Church in Berthelsdorf near Herrnhut in 1855 and became its bishop in 1857. Wullschlaegelia Reichenbach fil., a genus of two species of leafless orchids bears his name.
