Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff

Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff (21 May 1797 – 11 September 1854) was a German botanist and university professor.

He was among the first to examine the reproduction of mosses and liverworts and is credited with coining the terms archegonia and antheridia.

Bischoff was born in Dürkheim and studied botany under Wilhelm Daniel Koch, the author a major flora of Germany, in Kaiserslautern.

[1] Bischoff issued the exsiccata Herbarium normale plantarum officinalium et mercatorium.

[2] The genus Bischofia was named after Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff by Karl Blume.