Heinrich Göppert

Johann Heinrich Robert Göppert (25 July 1800 – 18 May 1884) was a German botanist and paleontologist.

Göppert performed extensive research on the formation of coal and amber, and also conducted comparison studies between existing and fossil flora.

[1] His private collection of specimens of fossil flora was considered the finest in the world.

In 1861, he became foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In 1864 and 1865, he published papers criticising Charles Darwin's theory of common descent from research in botanical palaeontology.