Philipp Wilhelm Wirtgen [SEP] occupation
Philipp Wilhelm Wirtgen
Philipp Wilhelm Wirtgen (4 December 1806 – 7 September 1870) was a German botanist and teacher born in Neuwied, Germany. He was the father of botanist Ferdinand Paul Wirtgen (1848–1924).
He was a school teacher in Remagen, Winningen and beginning in 1831, at Koblenz, where from 1835 to 1870, he served as an instructor at the "Evangelischen Höheren Stadtschule". With botanist Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck (1787-1837), he was founder of the "Botanischer Verein
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