Heinrich Moritz Willkomm

Heinrich Moritz Willkomm (29 June 1821, Herwigsdorf – 26 August 1895, Schloss Wartenberg in Wartenberg am Rollberg, Bohemia) was a German botanist who served as a professor of botany at Tharandt, the University of Dorpat and at the University of Prague.

[1] Willkomm was born in Herwigsdorf where his father Karl Gottlob was a theologian and Protestant pastor.

With Kunze's support he travelled around Spain and Portugal, collecting plants which were edited and distributed in an exsiccata series by G.

[4] Between 1878-1879 he corresponded with Aragonese Spanish botanist Blanca Catalán de Ocón y Gayolá and considered her "la primera botánica de España",[5] and cited her work in his publication on the flora of Spain written with Danish botanist Johan Lange, the Prodromus Florae Hispanicae.

Following his tenure at Dorpat, he embarked on a scientific excursion to the Balearic Islands accompanied by Richard Fritze (1841-1903), Moritz Winkler (1812-1899) and Christoph Friedrich Hegelmaier (1834-1906).

[4] His book Die Wunder des Mikroskops ("The Miracles of the Microscope"; 1856, 4th ed.