Note 55 — Chapter V · Morphology and Systematic Botany under the Influence of the History of Development and the Knowledge of the Cryptogams. 1840-1860.

Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff was born at Dürkheim on the Hardt in 1797, and died as Professor of Botany at Heidelberg in 1854. He wrote various manuals and text-books which are careful and industrious compilations, but being entirely conceived in the spirit of the times preceding Schleiden they are now obsolete; his investigations however into the Hepaticae, Characeae, and Vascular Cryptogams, illustrated by very beautiful drawings from his own hand, are still of value; and the same may be said of his ‘Handbuch der botanischen Terminologie und Systemkunde’ on account of its numerous figures.